On Apr 25, 2011, at 09:43, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> >> On Apr 6, 2011, at 05:36, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Revision: 77613 >>> http://trac.macports.org/changeset/77613 >>> Author: [email protected] >>> Date: 2011-04-06 03:36:53 -0700 (Wed, 06 Apr 2011) >>> Log Message: >>> ----------- >>> doxygen: remove coreutils dependency, use BSD install instead. refs #28987 >> >> FYI, this probably didn't require a revision bump. All you've done is >> changed *how* files are installed, but you haven't changed *what* files are >> installed. The files a user will get by installing doxyegn @1.7.3_3 are >> exactly the same as the ones they'll get by installing doxyegn @1.7.3_4. >> Keep this in mind for future updates so you don't make people rebuild ports >> unnecessarily. >> > > This is a dead-on observation and astute annalysis. > > There is a far wider domain of application however, particularly > as MacPorts attempts binary packaging: > > Most "builds" don't change content at all but instead adjust metadata.
Indeed, we'll have to revise our guidelines when we build and distribute binaries. We don't do that yet, though. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
