On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:12:14PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > A few words about cleaning up PERMIT_PACKAGE_*, since I've done > similar changes before. > > You might think this will take care of itself over time, as ports > are updated and modified, they'll eventually all get cleaned up. > Past experience suggests that this won't happen or will take a very > long time. A subset of ports is touched frequently, but there is > a long tail that sees no changes from one release to the next. So, > yeah, eventually we'll need to sit down and do an explicit cleanup > run. > > You want to do this in steps and eliminate the obsolete settings from > (1) modules and the ports that use them; > (2) all instances of Makefile.inc and the ports that use them; > (3) multi-package ports; > (4) the rest, which is simple now.
This is a fairly simple change comparatively, because the tools are aware of it and don't consider it a "binary package change", so no revision bump is necessary.
