Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 01), Aryeh M. Friedman said: > >> The below patch is designed to keep install(1) from overwriting symbolic >> links. The motivation is if cups is installed some programs still >> expect lpr to be in /usr/bin thus when I install cups I backlink the >> /usr/local/bin versions of lp* to /usr/bin. When a build/installworld >> is done these links are overwritten and the sym links have to be >> performed again. This patch prevents the overwrite. >> > > Why not just set WITHOUT_LPR to skip building the base versions > entirely? > > Because this happens in other cases not covered by WITHOUT_XXX also it does not solve the problem of ports and/or third party install from overwritting.... i.e. this is a general solution to a specific problem (which I think is preferable to a one off solution for each instance of a problem)Received on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 03:50:42 UTC
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