Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 19:40:33 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/7384: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.1 is old Message-ID: <199807240240.TAA13528@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19980723221121.A22266@zappo> (message from Tim Vanderhoek on Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:11:21 -0400)
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* The system ncurses is a minimal ncurses and discludes a number of
* things in the port, I believe. The port is potentially required even
* if system ncurses is at the latest version.
Hmm.
There are too many of these kind of ports and the list of manual
package builds is growing longer every day (ok, week). How about
making them less intrusive? Perhapes a new guideline, something like
(1) No names that conflict with system libraries (e.g.,
libncurses.so.4.2 -> libncurses42.so.1.0)
(2) Header files that conflict with system headers have to be either
renamed or put in a subdirectory (e.g., /usr/local/include/malloc.h
-> /usr/local/include/malloc/malloc.h)
IMO, there shouldn't be any port that installs something that
conflicts with system, or users are in for a nasty surprise. Either
that or we disable packaging entirely.
Satoshi
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