On 15/04/2004, at 5:21 AM, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 20:40:04 +0200
> "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv@menta.net> wrote:
>
>> Though... they claim that 2.4 is _binary_ compatible with 2.2...  so 
>> maybe the
>> package could be modified to install a symlink between 
>> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.400
>> and libgtk-x11-2.0.so.200, downgrade the required version, and hope 
>> everything
>> works?  (I don't know if this could work, and it's probably late now 
>> to do
>> it...)
>
> BTW, thinking a bit more... doing this will break many gnome2 packages 
> that
> really require 2.4.

   Yes, in cases where a large number (the majority) of packages depend 
on an updated version, the default BUILDLINK_DEPENDS should be updated 
accordingly.

   But if the reasons were just the ones you mentioned in your previous 
email (major version bump, but compatible libraries) 
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED should be updated, not BUILDLINK_DEPENDS!

   Normally, this will have the same effect (rebuilding of the 
corresponding package(s)), but unlike *DEPENDS, it can be overridden by 
the user (who will then get a warning that the binary packages created 
may be incompatible with binaries built against the recommended set of 
pre-requisite packages and should therefore not be uploaded to ftp).

   I have changed 'pkg_add' recently to also by default refuse to add 
binary packages possibly built against non-RECOMMENDED libraries.  
(This can be overridden as well, if you know what you are doing, but a 
warning will always be printed).

   Cheers
       ,
    Rene