Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:26:15 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> Cc: Jesse <j@lumiere.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH for Apache: Add FreeBSD Server Layout Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.990115101514.4479A-100000@roble3.roble.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990115071617.16903D-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com>
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On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Bill Fumerola wrote: > (cd /usr/ports/category/portname && make deinstall) Make deinstall and pkg_delete are certainly nice when they work, and most of the time they do, but not all ports are written to spec. I wouldn't want to have to depend on these utilities when so may ports don't recognize `make deinstall' or `pkg_delete`. Even if FreeBSD has stricter criteria for admitting ports to the collection this would still be a band-aid solution. Better to fix the root problem than to add another layer of complexity. And no pkg_admin utility can fix the problems with combined libraries described earlier. Then too there's the matter of compatibility with other Unix operating systems. Why reinvent the wheel when Solaris has been doing this right for half a decade already? Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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