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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 08:39:10 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NetBSD package system features
Message-ID:  <20001130083910.O559@puck.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <005b01c059bc$d8bc32b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:28:38PM -0500
References:  <00112811292900.19785@nightshade> <005b01c059bc$d8bc32b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 11:28:38PM -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> This target scares me.  Why?  It is not uncommon to find an
> improperly-designed port in which the deinstall target *removes*
> configuration files.  On a production system, this can be disastrous.

I sure hope there aren't any more ports like that these days.  I believe
most (if not all) have been fixed.

-- 
wca


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