On Thursday 04 March 2010 19:13:36 Matthew Seaman wrote: > You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING > instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set > DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: > > # portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8\.* > > Please feel free to complain volubly about this: it's hand-holding for > newbies which annoys and incoveniences the vastly larger number of > non-newbies (ie. anyone who has been using the ports for more than a few > weeks.)
Has this absolutely ludicrous change not been reverted with extreme prejudice yet? And is there a PR where we can add interesting suggestions as to what miseries should be inflicted on the person responsible for it? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
