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Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 2003 00:16:20 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recent bsd.port.mk changes
Message-ID:  <20030418071620.GE25227@vectors.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20030418045754.GA94741@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <1050640352.58286.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20030418045754.GA94741@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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>> (04.17.2003 @ 2157 PST): Kris Kennaway said, in 2.4K: <<
> The major benefit of this change is that it prevents people from
> installing one copy of the port over an older version, thereby
> screwing up their /var/db/pkg and possibly leaving orphan files lying
> around.  I think that is important enough that it should stay in, in
> some form.
>> end of "Re: Recent bsd.port.mk changes" from Kris Kennaway <<

I'd really like an option that would allow the old rules for installing
multiple versions of a port and only deinstalling the one referenced by
the Makefile.

# Adam


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