On Wednesday August 24 2016 15:40:27 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> > 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.

And in this case there isn't even a need for the dependencies anymore; the new 
version builds fine after I deactivated the ports. Which, btw, didn't raise any 
errors about how `port:cpuid` depended on them. So no, apparently build 
dependencies are not recorded in the DB the same way runtime dependencies are.

>From what I've been able to determine the package needs just *a* perl 
>interpreter >5.8 to execute a build script. The system perl does perfectly 
>fine for that purpose.

R


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