On Thursday May 28 2015 16:34:47 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:

> > It should be safe to build ports that do not depend directly on a failed 
> > port, but it seems not impossible that the ABI-changing effect of the 
> > update of an indirect dependency permeates to a direct dependency.
> 
> I would consider this a bug in the dependent port. That indirect dependency 
> should be a direct dependency.

At least it seems a good guideline: if dependency A changed its ABI because 
it's dependency B changed ABI, B should become a direct dependency. It's hard 
to do something like that prophylactically, sadly :)

R.
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