On Fri, June 21, 2013 3:46 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/06/2013 20:11, Jim Trigg wrote: >> OK, is there a way to do this for specific ports so that an >> administrator >> can approve specific combinations of ports without giving blanket >> permission? > > No, unfortunately there isn't. Given that you need root permissions to > install packaged software in any case, it would be impossible to enforce > any selectivity like that.
I didn't see this as necessarily more difficult than doing similar things in make.conf (either old-style or optionsNG)... > Besides which, two or more ports installing a file in the same place is > a bug, when those ports might reasonably be installed on the same system > simultaneously. The old pkg_tools were incredibly lax about such > things, so there hasn't been sufficient impetus to clean up such > occurrences. My point is that if an admin runs into a bug between one pair of ports and installs this workaround, s/he won't see similar bugs between other pairs of ports to report them. If there were a way to specify this at the port level (something like "ignore conflicts with these other ports"), that would give a workaround for known bugs without masking not-yet-known bugs. Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
