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Re: [Joerg Sonnenberger] CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk



On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 07:08:45PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > > > enough of a user community of pkg_rr that it seems unreasoable to enable
 > > > this by default even for PKG_DEVELOPER until that's ok.
 > > 
 > > I would also like to request that this change be reverted until make
 > > replace works correctly for the case when the version to be replaced is
 > > the same as the version currently installed.
 > > 
 > > Currently it fails silently which is very bad for pkg_rr.
 > 
 > For me it is balancing two different groups. Developers that prepare
 > updates etc and should bother to test destdir to not introduce
 > regressions. The second set are those doing pkg_rr or whatever. At the
 > moment I classify the former for importantly, especially because nothing
 > forces you to use USE_DESTDIR during pkg_rr runs.

No, the users are more important. This breaks my world; please fix or
revert.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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