mesa-libs and llvm

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 01:49:27PM +0200, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> On REL 11.1 i386, I've been upgrading 'mesa-libs-17.2.2' to 'mesa-libs-17.2.3'
> Bassed on fact that mesa-libs-17.2.3 depends on package: llvm40>=3.9.0_4
> Why does it pulls devel/llvm40 (4.0.1) when base has 4.0.0 as even 3.9.0 would be enough?

mesa-libs depends on internal libraries with unstable ABIs and APIs.  We
can not ship those libraries in FreeBSD because we then would be unable
to update llvm versions in stable branches.  As a result the llvm
package is required.

-- Brooks
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