Oh ok. I have seen some ports have a revision increased recently because of
a change of default variants, so I was following that, but I guess they
shouldn't have been.

David

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org>
wrote:

>
> On Jan 13, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
> > But there was no reason to increase the port's revision, since the
> user's existing variants will be preserved in the upgrade. Regardless
> whether the user had the atlas or accelerate or openblas variant of octupus
> 5.0.1_0 installed, they will have exactly the same variant of octopus
> 5.0.1_1 installed after the upgrade. Increasing the revision only causes
> lots of unnecessary rebuilding, for the buildbots and for users.
>
> I should correct myself, and say it causes unnecessary rebuilding or
> downloading and reinstalling for users. The buildbots will have to rebuild
> regardless whether the revision is changed, because the variants are
> changed, but that's fine.
>
>
>
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