depends_build on minimal version?

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Thursday September 18 2014 05:23:15 Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> No, and ports shall not care what version of another port is selected. The port select mechanism is for a user's convenience only, and shall not influence any port build.

I wasn't asking about port select ... 

You realise that this also implies that there isn't even an easy way to warn a user that s/he will need to install a newer port version of some dependency in order to build a given port, if the configure mechanism doesn't do this?

R.