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Date:      Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:39:47 -0800
From:      "Roger Marquis" <marquis@roble.com>
To:        "Mathieu Arnold" <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option
In-Reply-To: <67897B782F897C2A66FCD458@atuin.in.mat.cc>
References:  <D029D964D3A96A570922090C@ogg.in.absolight.net> <ee422bd630292fe6f7bc5439799667de@lhaven.homeip.net> <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net> <20150113163325.3A8FCBDC24@prod2.absolight.net> <67897B782F897C2A66FCD458@atuin.in.mat.cc>

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Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Would you rather the port installing BIND in /usr/local without telling you
> anything, silently breaking your installation completely ?

Certainly not but it's unprofessional to present the end-user with a dialog
option that can be selected only to subsequently inform them that the option
is deprecated.  It might take a little programming but the error message
printed when one port would overwrite files installed by another would, IMO,
be better i.e., recommending removal of the conflict before installation.

Roger




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