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Le Lun 10 avr 06 à  1:41:59 +0200, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>
 écrivait :
> >I had choosen the first method, because I thought it was easier for the
> >OP this way, and I think that a port should do better than a manual
> >installation.
> 
> You've missed the 3rd, and optimal, option: on initial install, install 
> the config files based on the .dist files, but *do not* overwrite an 
> existing config file (ie. after an upgrade) ...

If you want the package to install these files, they must be registered
in pkg-plist, and then they will be deinstalled.

> The problem is that in your option 1 above, on an existing system, you go 
> from a "fully running system", and bring someone back to just an "almost 
> running webmail", and, in fact, it isn't even *almost* running, since now 
> there is no more connections to the IMAP server, since you've totally 
> unconfigured that, you taken away all of my existing database 
> configurations, etc ...

This is why you missed the post-installation step and don't merge your
saved config within the newer, unfortunately.

Regards,
-- 
Th. Thomas.