varying PORTVERSION with OSVERSION

[Thierry Thomas]

Le Mer 21 déc 05 à 22:15:13 +0100, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org>
 écrivait :
> It came to my attention today that PORTVERSION can vary with 
> OSVERSION.  Is this a recommended practice?  For that matter can it 
> vary with ARCH?

I don't know if there exists a policy about that, but this is possible
for binaries ports (e.g. misc/dnetc or x11/nvidia-driver).

> I ask mainly because FreshPorts does not cater for this at present. 
> Given that I'm now working on making FreshPorts both OSVERSION and 
> ARCH independent, I wanted to gather more information before 
> proceeding with the design.  I was preparing to make FreshPorts aware 
> that FORBIDDEN and BROKEN may vary with OSVERSION and ARCH, and 
> nothing else.

It would be great if the statistics of Broken / Forbidden / etc. were
displayed by branches, thanks!
-- 
Th. Thomas.