7 | | debian and other linux distros often leave behind the old library version, so nothing needs urgent rebuilding, but then builds gradually get rebuilt against the new version of the library through natural updates. Once everything has rebuilt, they remove the old library. That works, but you can see takes lots of organization, and has it’s own many issues, so MacPorts does not generally do that unless software can’t build against the new library version.. |
| 7 | debian and other linux distros often leave behind the old library version, so nothing needs urgent rebuilding, but then builds gradually get rebuilt against the new version of the library through natural updates. Once everything has rebuilt, they remove the old library. That works, but you can see takes lots of organization, and has it’s own many issues, so MacPorts does not generally do that unless software can’t build against the new library version. |