> 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
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