[CFR] Remove texinfo from base

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 25 10:52:17 UTC 2014


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
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