Subject: Re: "make install" owerwrites files without asking
To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/30/2005 11:41:43
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:25:54AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:15:58AM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:42:06AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > This sounds useful as an optional idea. I don't know how much time is
> > > involved for reimplementing this for all the Unix platforms pkgsrc
> > > supports though. And maybe currently impossible (I don't know) on some
> > > of our pkgsrc platforms.
> > 
> > I don't see a problem here - if it is impossible on some platform,
> > unprivileged package creation will be impossible on that platform. Given
> > that currently it is impossible on any platform, this would be still a
> > great progress.
> 
> Hm, isn't pkgsrc all about consistency across platforms?  

Honestly, I don't know what pkgsrc is all about.

But I hope that improvemets on only some platforms would be considered
better than no improvements at all.

And BTW, how is libkver (which does something similar) consistent on all
platforms?

Bye	Pavel