Of variants and revbumping.

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Mon Sep 16 17:42:02 PDT 2013


If we keep adding variants instead of separate ports/subports then we'll keep having this "non-default" problem.

On Sep 16, 2013, at 8:11 PM, Eric A. Borisch wrote:

> If there is a use case (your 'someone could') that is negatively impacted by not rev-bumping, I'm fine with it.
> 
> As I stated from the get-go, anything with a default dependency would certainly be rev-bumped, but that's two or three of the twenty or so packages that will be (unnecessarily, for most) rebuilt if I bump everything. Of course, for any of those that are distributable, the compile time will be farmed out to the buildbots...
> 
> I'll go ahead and bump everything when I get around to committing this unless there's a uproar. :)
> 



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