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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:48:18 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm@inbox.lv>
Subject:   Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors
Message-ID:  <200412241748.27265.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240040530.29103-100000@pancho>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0412240040530.29103-100000@pancho>

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On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:13, Mark Linimon wrote:
> There's really quite a bit of email in the mailing list archives
> about why this was done.  The short summary is that in the short
> run there is some pain but in the long run this is a win for the
> project, and the users.

IMHO it would have been nice for a clearer announcement to have been made=20
regarding this, eg the reasoning and work arounds (which are easy but you=20
have to know about them :)

It is a very user visible change and it's rather disruptive (because make=20
index is very time consuming)

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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