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From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Recent bsd.port.mk changes
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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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