> On Aug 24, 2016, at 3:36 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Aug 24, 2016, at 3:05 PM, Mihai Moldovan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 24.08.2016 09:02 PM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: >>> >>> Also, cpuid only has a build dependency on 2 perl packages, so there's no >>> need to reinstall the port when perl changes. >> >> You can use the revbump to change the dependency to the new perl version, >> mainly >> to make that perl package a leaf. It's not strictly required, but my personal >> opinion is to do that to enable users to get rid of packages they don't need >> anymore (and at least I don't like to remove build dependencies, as they >> will be >> pulled in again later anyway.) > > But those Perl ports are always leaves (w.r.t. `cpuid`) because they are > build dependencies. There's no need to revbump if you're just updating build > dependencies.
To be more specific, there's no need to revbump if the change in build dependencies does not alter the build product. vq _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
