On 04/01/2004, at 8:52 PM, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote:

> Another problem that I see is that package maintainer are too keenly 
> setting
> BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.xxxx in the buildlink2.mk files to the current 
> revision
> level, although, applications  may not necessarily require it if 
> backward
> compatibility is ensured.

   I agree.

   I have been guilty of this myself, but we really should only bump
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS if required rather than to prescribe that users
should do an update ...

   Cheers
       ,
    Rene