berkeleydb version duplication

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:18 PM, markd at macports.org wrote:
> I see that db4 is at version 4.3, so it is duplicated by the db43  
> port,
> though not entirely because the lib locations are different.  In  
> addition
> to the duplication, the library names and locations aren't  
> consistent the
> way it is.  The following ports depend on db4, should any of them  
> depend
> on db44?

probably all of them.

The db4 port used to track the latest db4.x release, but some things  
broke so the maintainer created db4x ports and kept db4 around for  
compatibility with other ports that already depended on it (or for  
ports that would work with db4 being upgraded).

> db4 - libgda, libgda3, openldap, prothon, cyrus-imapd, exim, isync,
> mutt-devel, spamprobe, netatalk, rb-bdb, xastir
>
> db44 - many
> db45 - a few
>
> db41 - no dependents
> db42 - no dependents
> db43 - no dependents

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