[ On Friday, September 8, 2000 at 09:27:34 (-0400), Johnny C. Lam wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: When DEPENDS can be upgraded in place 
>
> We could extend this to every time a package with a shared library
> gets updated, then all dependent packages need to be changed to depend
> on at least the updated package.  This would solve the problems form
> binary package users

and indeed the result would be "correct".

> but would be a slight pain to package builders
> who need to constantly chase new versions of packages.

"slight pain"?  I think not!

Even now anyone tracking pkgsrc, be it on a -current machine or not, has
to do a lot of painful reconstruction every time they sup/update/rsync.

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