Ports updated without maintainer notification?

[Jason Liu]

In this particular situation, the libraries in question are ones that I
specifically added to MacPorts in order to allow my Blender port to build.
No other ports use those libraries, although obviously there's nothing to
prevent other software from starting to use them in the future.

-- 
Jason Liu


On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 7:08 PM Nils Breunese <nils at breun.nl> wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> > Holding back a library to be compatible with one port may not be the
> right choice for other ports that depends on the library.
>
> If other ports would want to use the latest version of foo-lib, but
> Blender needs specifically version 1.15 of foo-lib, it might be an idea to
> have both a foo-lib port with the latest version and a foo-lib-1.15 port
> that Blender can then depend on.
>
> Nils.
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