Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 22:46:22 -0800 (PST) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: baum@abirnet.co.il, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd.port.mk is broken Message-ID: <199801210646.WAA20471@baloon.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <15803.885363775@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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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. :-) Sorry, I was going to fix it but was kinda sidetracked by various things. However, it is interesting to note that nobody, I repeat nobody has given me any hand in improving the error check and message. That includes several committers who were complaining about it on the lists. That is sad. * 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?" Please forward those mails to me. I will personally reply to anyone who is inconvenienced by my changes. Satoshi
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