Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 05:45:40 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFR] Remove texinfo from base Message-ID: <20140625104540.GE86779@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <20140625103107.GB23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20140625103107.GB23976@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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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. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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