Revbumping when removing a dependency?
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Mon Sep 1 18:56:53 PDT 2014
On 2014-9-2 01:43 , Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> What's the usual procedure for removing a dependency from a port? Should the port be revbumped to break the dependency on existing installations?
Eh... technically yes, but the inconvenience of the rebuild may outweigh
that of the incorrect dependency relationship being in the registry;
i.e. not being able to uninstall what may now be a leaf without forcing.
(Assuming the port contents are not changing at all, of course.)
- Josh
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