On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Joshua Root wrote:
Scott Haneda wrote:
I have seen many posts, where a
port is not installing. The reply from other users has been "you
need
to -f it, some ports are just that way", and that is not the right
info,
it will spiral out of control, to the point where as illustrated
above,
they blindly -f things. -f is for when you know what you are
doing, it
should not be propagating as a solution.
You should've seen the situation pre-1.7. You had to use -f half the
time to uninstall old inactive versions of ports. And yes, some users
ended up blindly using -f for everything, sometimes with undesired
consequences.
We are getting better, slowly but surely. :-)
Indeed, and this dialogue is always good.
What the perl situation needs is someone who understands the issue to
just get in and get the job done. The ticket has well and truly hit
maintainer timeout by now.
Thanks Josh, this is the first I have sort of gotten the impression
the issue is even know how to be solved. I assume the ticket was so
old was that no one could come to a consensus as to the best way to
solve it, making it more political.
As I offered before, if someone knows someone who is capable, but just
needs a little motivation, let me know, I am sure that motivation can
be drummed up, at least, I will do my part to help.
--
Scott
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