On Apr 5, 2008, at 13:06, Rainer Müller wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Well, that is contrary to the FAQ, which explains why MacPorts
uses its own libraries in most cases. libpng is not a library for
which we should be making an exception to this rule.
We have a lot of dependencies like this. That's why we have this
lib: thing at all. If the maintainer wants to manage this, it is ok
to use it. But there is no general rule to use stuff from outside
or 'overwrite' dependencies.
Then we have a lot of ports that are in violation of this guideline
and should be updated. Using the "lib:" style of dependency used to
be preferred. Now it is not. But since half of our ports are not
maintained, many ports have not received the necessary love to change
this and many other things.
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