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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:39:47 -0800
Subject: Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option
From: "Roger Marquis" <marquis@roble.com>
To: "Mathieu Arnold" <mat@FreeBSD.org>
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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