Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:17:23 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.ziplink.net> To: asami@freefall.freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Cc: mi@aldan.ziplink.net, asami@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/2678 Message-ID: <199702131417.JAA29203@rtfm.ziplink.net> In-Reply-To: <199702130842.AAA27276@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Satoshi Asami" at "Feb 13, 97 00:42:57 am"
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Satoshi Asami said once: > Synopsis: teTeX ports installs /usr/local/bin/mp of it's own > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: asami > State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 13 00:41:25 PST 1997 > State-Changed-Why: > Thanks for the report, but I don't think we can do anything about > this one. If we start renaming files that conflict with another > port, that may confuse a lot of people. In this case, restoring things was easy -- print/mp is a small port, and teTeX's bin/mp is just a symlink. But what about smth harder to get/rebuild once overwritten? With the number of ports growing (thanks, Satoshi!) this will be happening more and more. I think, some mechanism has to be worked out. The confusion, IMHO, is much worse when installed utilities or their parts or man-pages disappear for no obvious reason. And this should not be left to the port's maintainer, because programs may be completely unrelated and very few people install everything. Every port knows the files it installs (pkg/PLIST). May be `make install' should review the list and see if any of the files are already there and (possibly) ask for confirmation... It can even try to look up the pkg-database to find out whose files those are. This, BTW, would also prevent my fine-tuned X11/app-defaults/Knews from being overwritten by the new knews installation... -mi
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