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Date:      Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:13:20 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFR] Remove texinfo from base
Message-ID:  <53AAE710.8030500@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140625105209.GC23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20140625103107.GB23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140625104540.GE86779@over-yonder.net> <20140625105209.GC23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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On 6/25/14 3:52 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:45:40AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>> 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.
> I have just committed the support for this in ports, anyway breakage should be
> reported, right now it seems fine on my exp-run
>
> regards,
> Bapt
Go Bapt!  Well done.

-- 
Alfred Perlstein




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