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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: [CFR] Remove texinfo from base
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:31:08PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Baptiste Daroussin, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> The ports tree has received the necessary bits so it is now able to
> handle info pages without anything related to texinfo in base

How many ports does that break?

As somebody with /usr/local/bin/ before /usr/bin/ in his $PATH, I've
run into a steady trickle of ports over the years that break when
various ports shadow base utils, and texinfo is the prime offender.
e.g., recently (and still brokenly) lang/guile as
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189386> says.


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