On Aug 31, 2011, at 15:25, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:37, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> 
>> My understanding for the use of sbin was mistaken. My reason for putting 
>> this script in sbin was to avoid a conflict with port svg2pdf; evidently a 
>> bad idea.
>> 
>> I believe the port sources for svg2pdf are unmaintained and obsolete. In my 
>> experience, and others I have conferred with, the pdf files produced by the 
>> svg2pdf program are of poor quality.
>> 
>> A solution to librsvg incorrectly installing sbin/svg2pdf could be to 
>> replace/conflict the ports librsvg and svg2pdf.
>> 
>> Another solution would be to rename the librsvg svg2pdf  script to something 
>> like rsvg2pdf.
> 
> Since the svg2pdf software is unmaintained and its output is bad, it sounds 
> to me like making svg2pdf replaced_by librsvg would be ok. You might have to 
> do some pre-activate magic to deactivate an already-installed svg2pdf port.

Alternately, what if you kept the svg2pdf port, made it depend on librsvg, and 
just made it install this one shell script?

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