From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 00:33:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFB23A1E for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (mx3.absolight.net [IPv6:2a01:678:2:100::25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "plouf.absolight.net", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1A9F615 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D094BDC25; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from atuin.in.mat.cc (atuin.in.mat.cc [79.143.241.205]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6D984BDC1D; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:33:42 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atuin.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E711229ABEC; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:33:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:33:42 +0100 From: Mathieu Arnold To: marquis@roble.com Subject: Re: BIND REPLACE_BASE option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20150113233952.BF862BDC24@prod2.absolight.net> References: <2A3ABE9AE68B3CE8E1B7C1A1@ogg.in.absolight.net> <20150113163325.3A8FCBDC24@prod2.absolight.net> <67897B782F897C2A66FCD458@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20150113233952.BF862BDC24@prod2.absolight.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:33:46 -0000 +--On 13 janvier 2015 15:39:47 -0800 Roger Marquis wrote: | 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. The dialog option you talk about says: [ ] REPLACE_BASE EOL, no longer supported I'm quite sure the end-user you're talking about can get a clue from it, and if he either already had selected it before, or he just selected it, he will get: ===> bind99-9.9.6P1_3 REPLACE_BASE is no longer supported. The end-user can then get another clue and maybe unselect it. Regards, -- Mathieu Arnold