render port is being replaced with xorg-renderproto port

[Randall Wood]

Its been done before, when the abiword ports got switched around, and  
refered to in the *-dev mailing list.

On 10 Nov 2008, at 05:28, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> Citando Ryan Schmidt :
>> This message is relevant to anyone using ports that until now  
>> depended on
>> the render port:
>>
>> * cairo / cairo-devel
>> * gthumb
>> * gtk2
>> * libgdiplus
>> * rxvt-unicode
>> * wine / wine-devel
>> * xrender
>>
>> The render port has been replaced with the xorg-renderproto port.  
>> They
>> are the same software; the latter is just a newer version. So we are
>> removing the render port.
>
> Don't we have a better way of dealing with port name changes (or  
> similar
> issues)? This change creates two conflicting ports, if one of the
> dependents is not updated, it will mean some ports (potentially half  
> of
> the ports related to X) won't be installable.
>
> Isn't it possible to update render to a pseudo newer version that  
> has no
> file but depends on xorg-renderproto? Or else to have some kind of
> "superseding" mechanism?
>
> Best,
>
> Emmanuel
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