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Date:      Thu, 23 Oct 2014 12:12:22 -0800
From:      Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
To:        FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: firebird25-client 2.5.3 fails to build
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> wrote:
>>
>> There's a PR that discusses this issue (ports that require
>> their old version to be deinstalled before building the new version):
>>
>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193371
>>
>
> Perhaps a note in /usr/ports/UPDATING would have been the right thing
> to do here?

<soapbox>
Or even better, using FreeBSD Foundation funds to sponsor work to make
this automatic ... or even semi-automatic (to prompt the user with
"This port is marked as requiring deinstallation prior to
reinstallation.  Would you like to do that now? (y/n)")
</soapbox>

Royce



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