Re: Version requirements for dependancies

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Robert Elz wrote:

> You misinterpreted the problem.   You're assuming Chris is asking about
> needing to rebuild spamprobe when db4 is updated.   That isn't it at all.

I understood the problem. I was pointing out other sides of the situation 
too.

...
> The problem here is that pkgsrc is optimised towards making it easier for
> the pkgsrc developer, and not making things correct, or easier for the
..

I see it another way (for this specific problem): pkgsrc is optimized 
towards making it easier for the package end-user (not pkgsrc builder).

> Either way, the old db4 would do, and is perhaps even better than, the
> new one (of course, the new one may have bug or performance fixes that
> might make it preferable, but certainly not essential.)
...

Except in the case where binary packages are used on different systems, 
because of libdb4-4.6.so.6 versus libdb4-4.7.so.7.

As for the increased of the API requirements, I don't know why that was 
done.