Trivial PR, fix package-noinstall
Gary Jennejohn
gary.jennejohn at freenet.de
Sat Apr 10 11:11:43 UTC 2010
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:18:42 -0700
Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I've thought this over and and user modifiable scripts should
> not be in packages; they should instead be example files which don't
> conflict with real configuration files. This is already the case for
> several ports, but not all ports. If we did this, it would solve the
> problem we've had with ports removing or overwriting user config files
> simply and easily. I wonder if other folks agree with me or not.
>
I agree as long as the port emits a message pointing the user at the
example configuration files.
In some cases more than this may be needed since man pages might refer
to configuration files which no longer exist.
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Gary Jennejohn
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