Re: Can we stop revbumping the world please?

[Jonathan Schleifer <js%nil.im@localhost>]

The issue is that a single package, nodejs, depends on icu on my system. 
Nothing else depends on nodejs. Yet I have to rebuild hundreds and 
hundreds of packages. This doesn't make sense. Not in the slightest. 
Also, to give two examples of packages I maintain that have been 
revbumped and don't need icu: devel/objfw and devel/fossil. They have no 
direct or indirect dependency on icu.

Also, the proper solution would be that packages record that they need 
libfoo.so.75 and not remove libfoo.so.75 until no package needs it 
anymore. E.g. OpenBSD handles it this way. So it is certainly not an 
unsolvable problem, or a problem that requires destroying the planet to 
rebuild everything when nothing changed.

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Jonathan