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Subject: Re: misc/84674: Installer trying to install bad package to many
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The following reply was made to PR misc/84674; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To: Brandon Sharitt <bsharitt@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/84674: Installer trying to install bad package to many
 times
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 21:55:09 +0300

 On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:17:45 GMT
 Brandon Sharitt <bsharitt@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 > While trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 for i386, the install of eclipse
 > encountered an error,
 
 What error ?
 
 > which in itself doesn't bother, 
 
 It does, packages on release CDs are supposed to be all right.
 
 > but 5 other packages needed it as a dependency, and instead of
 > aborting to install of dpendant packages, it proceeded to try to
 > completely redownload and reinstall the Eclipse package FIVE FUCKING
 > TIMES. I hoping this was just a joke, a little developer humor, I
 > mean nobody would purposely write something that poorly would they?
 
 Leaving apart your tone, why isn't this a feature ? Please tell the
 actual error.
 
 
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