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From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
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Subject: Re: please check your ports, pre-install vs pre-su-install
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Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> wrote:

> or that you consider the two targets redundant and just default
> to one (pre-install with additional credential switch) should be enough ?
> I may agree with the latter.

I don't. Try to test a port on one of the FreeBSD machines (on an
architecture you don't have yourself). You aren't root there.

While there are still some problems doing it as an user (in some cases when
shared libs are involved), some ports can be tested this way.

Bye,
Alexander.

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