Scot Hetzel <swhet...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > > Is somewhere written policy or portmgr recommendation about ports behavior > > on install / deinstall?
My impression is that every maintainer has her own undocumented policy although the approaches taken could be grouped into a few categories. > > I am talking about some ports doing "nasty" things. > > > > Some ports are stopping services on deinstall, some not. > > I prefer that when a port is uninstalled, that the service is stopped. As long as it is optional and doesn't happen automatically I could live with that. At least to me "uninstalling a port" (with pkg or pkg_delete) means removing the files it installed and does not necessary imply "also kill whatever process is related to these files". > If it isn't stopped, it could pose a security risk to the system at a > later time. Stopping a service can pose a security risk as well, so I don't think that's a good argument as it depends on the port. > > Some ports are editing "my config files" on deinstall, so even on upgrade > > procedure I must check if port did some changes before I can restart target > > daemon. > > > Most ports don't edit the config files as they install the original > config file to a different name. In my opinion ports shouldn't mess with user-modified files unless they properly parse them and can be expected not to break them. And even then I don't think it should be done automatically without user interaction. I believe that's currently up to the maintainer as well, though. Fabian
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