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Date:      Tue, 2 Oct 2012 13:41:55 +0800
From:      Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya@gmail.com>
Cc:        Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@freebsd.org>, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>, python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/python3 symlink for python3X ports
Message-ID:  <20121002054155.GA54293@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 00:18:07 +0400, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> On 10/1/12 10:44 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> > However, it is still possible to have the "first installed wins" logic 
> > using a pkg-install script instead of in the Makefile, this would 
> > solve the package problems. Are you interested if I were to implement 
> > that? Chris 
> 
> I think that "first wins" logic is bad.

I am neutral with with this, what we definitely need to do is fix up the
conflicting package issue, or this will cause lots of problem when pkgNG
is widely used.

> I think that the state of the system should not depend on the order 
> packages are installed in.

How about an option?  Let user can choose to be default version while
installing.

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Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
http://lwhsu.org



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