On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 09:47:58PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote: > On Sat Sep 18, 2021 at 09:55:11AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > I am ok with this, but the following ports will need adjusting due to > > pkgspecs on particular boost versions: > > > > archivers/innoextract > > audio/py-tagpy,python3 > > devel/leatherman > > games/arx-libertatis > > games/freeorion > > games/valyriatear > > games/vegastrike/engine > > games/wesnoth > > graphics/hugin > > graphics/mapnik > > net/libtorrent-rasterbar > > sysutils/facter > > All ports were built properly. > > > > > I would suggest just removing the version checks (and bumping). > > > > I think the tight deps are often more trouble than they're worth, it's not > > like we support building from a mixture of old installed packages and newer > > ports tree anyway. They're useful if there are multiple versions of the same > > software in-tree and we need to depend on a particular version, or if > > there's a tight binding (like in irssi/dovecot where plugins must match the > > version exactly), or defensively to protect against updating a dependency to > > a version that is known to not be supported. But to ensure that a dependency > > is at a minimum version seems not worthwhile. > > > > Agree
Reviewing these ports together and with how boost updates usually work, I'm also ok with removing the boost version checks. They add complexity without being helpful in any of the cases. > [...]
