Found why mailman is trying (and failing) to reinstall postfix and it
appears to be a bug in other ports as well.
Shouldn't these ports be querying the pkg db rather than checking for a
particular file, particularly when the file is incorrectly specified?
Have you read the Porters' Handbook?
Not being a port maintainer, no.
But, generally, the answer to your question is "no," becuase it is often
the case that more than one port can serve as a dependency for another
port. Your suggestion amounts to saying that only one port can satisfy a
dependency for another port, which is not the case.
Not sure I understand the explanation but to clarify this specific case:
the mail/mailman port's dependency on mail/postfix fails because it look
for an installed file at a specific path without regards for the postfix
port's INST_BASE option.
Roger
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