Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:22:55 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@abirnet.co.il> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk is broken Message-ID: <15803.885363775@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 1998 03:44:06 %2B0200." <Pine.LNX.3.95.980121033217.11793A-100000@wizard.abirnet.co.il>
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> 3:30am schneider -> /usr/ports/x11/xbuffy# make > ===> xbuffy-3.3 : You > have an old tcl installation on your machine. > Remove everything that matches /usr/*/*tcl* first. Not to worry - it seems that several people have been making various changes to the ports collection lately which violate the principal of least surprise and generate lots of tech support emails like this. :-) I'd like to see this check backed out, myself. If its intention was to protect the users, it's only confused the piss out of them. I should know because I get many such messages like this in my personal inbox. "What happened? Why is it saying this now? How can I make it stop?" Jordan
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