BIND REPLACE_BASE option

Roger Marquis marquis at roble.com
Tue Jan 13 23:39:48 UTC 2015


Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Would you rather the port installing BIND in /usr/local without telling you
> anything, silently breaking your installation completely ?

Certainly not but it's unprofessional to present the end-user with a dialog
option that can be selected only to subsequently inform them that the option
is deprecated.  It might take a little programming but the error message
printed when one port would overwrite files installed by another would, IMO,
be better i.e., recommending removal of the conflict before installation.

Roger



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