Re: pkg/44597 (add native Kerberos support on Solaris)

[Tim Zingelman <tez%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/44597; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tim Zingelman <tez%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/44597 (add native Kerberos support on Solaris)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:14:35 -0500

 > =A0Is there a reason to not just downgrade the patterns to 1.4
 > =A0unconditionally (and adding the 1.8 dependency for the apps package)?
 
 Other than the fact that mit-krb5 (non-native) IS 1.8?
 (which was both an API & ABI bump from the previous pkgsrc version as
 far as I understand the definition of those variables)
 
 Why is it that those variables are used both to say what version is
 provided by a package AND for what version is required by a dependent
 package?  That just seems broken to me... or am I missing something in
 the concept?
 
 Are these variables better explained/defined someplace other than
 http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/buildlink.html ?
 
 Thanks,
 
  - Tim