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Subject: Re: tk80 port or tcl installation are broken on -current 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 1998 16:57:55 PST."
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:12:08 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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>  * Why?  It seems that things were fine until you rocked the boat with
>  * a bsd.port.mk that tried to be too clever at detecting this. :)
> 
> Um, did you read the message?  That has nothing to do with my change,
> Jordan.

I know, but the topic only seems to have flared up again on account of
it. :)

Yes, I see the problem.  No, I see no immediate solution that doesn't
have drawbacks of its own.  Yes, I hate this entire problem and would
just as soon say  "heck, just nuke TCL out of the base OS" if I had
a way of handling dist/ports dependencies currently in the tree.
The fact that I don't is why so many people are complaining that the
Handbook and FAQ have been left out of the doc dist since 2.2.2.

					Jordan