Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 20:39:03 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11/XFree86-4 Makefile Message-ID: <p0510150cb8bc43b2b94e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020319010652.GA22998@squall.waterspout.com> References: <200203181643.g2IGhnW66937@freefall.freebsd.org> <3C96742F.12AFE590@newsguy.com> <20020318231354.GA17607@genius.tao.org.uk> <20020318154352.C71020@xor.obsecurity.org> <p05101509b8bc36328f68@[128.113.24.47]> <20020319010652.GA22998@squall.waterspout.com>
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At 8:06 PM -0500 3/18/02, Will Andrews wrote: >On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:37:42PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> ...and Garance maintains that everyone is misunderstanding >> the basic problem here. I do not wish to annoy everyone > >Your message here does not indicate that you understand it >either. Kris is absolutely right, people need to use -u. >This applies regardless of how you had X installed before. Let me also note that I do understand the issue you are talking about. My position is that there is a larger issue, an issue that is totally unrelated to the libraries that you are discussing. I believe there is an issue which is specifically related to the "megaport" going into several "subports" and a meta-port. The package-handling programs can not handle that situation very well. I do understand the point that you and Kris are talking about. Let me try it this way. Why is -u an issue in this case? Why isn't this an issue which has come up in many other ports, as people have been port-upgraded one thing after another for the last several months? Is this the first time we have ever upgraded something with a library in it? I really do feel bad that I may seem to be coming across like someone who is arguing just to argue, but I am pretty sure that people are just fixing a symptom of the bigger issue. Now it may be that fixing the symptom will be good enough, but I think the bigger issue is also interesting to think about. The painful part about debating it over this port is that this port is so time-consuming to do anything with, so it isn't much fun to do many separate builds of it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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