On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Johnny Lam wrote:

> > The way it's currently handled in pkgsrc is, in short:
> >
> > BUILDLINK_DEPENDS: *API* changes.
> > BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED: *ABI* and/or security-related changes.
> >
> > This is a really important distinction, and has made pkgsrc very flexible
> > for "power users".  If we remove that distinction, we revert back to the
> > older incarnation of pkgsrc which forces the rebuild-the-world dances even
> > on those users who have the knowledge/experience to deal with such changes
> > in a more staged or progressive manner.
>
> If this is the case, I would rather we rename the variables to prevent any
> further confusion for developers or users:
>
> 	BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.*	-> BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.*
> 	BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.*	-> BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.*

If this is done, we may want a third one (BUILDLINK_SECURITY_DEPENDS?),
because that's the other reason for using RECOMMENDED today.  Otherwise I'm
happy with this, because it does reflect the usage of these variables.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>