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Can we stop revbumping the world please?



Due to the recent two(!) icu revbumps, I have to rebuild almost every package on my machine now, which will probably take about a week (as it's a slow ARM64). Meanwhile, to put things into perspective, I have a *single* package actually depending on icu installed. I am now rebuilding hundreds and hundreds of packages on an slow machine when all that would actually need to be rebuilt is a single package.

I've also noticed that many of the packages I maintain get revbumped frequently, for completely unrelated packages (not just icu). Can we please stop saying "Oh, I updated some library, let me revbump every single package in the tree"? It doesn't scale (we can't rebuild every single package in pkgsrc every time a library updates). It doesn't make sense. It wastes time, energy and space. It's literally destroying the planet for no reason.

Thanks,
Jonathan



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