[136318] trunk/dports/devel/autoconf/Portfile

René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Fri May 15 02:00:43 PDT 2015


On Friday May 15 2015 09:39:11 Arto Bendiken wrote:

>This is a welcome improvement from my POV as a user and port maintainer. I
>certainly know a newbie or two who were put off from using MacPorts when
>they tried to install something seemingly trivial and that unexpectedly
>pulled in "half the world".

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Not to mention side-effects when all of a sudden things (perl-based apps) no longer function because the new perl in /opt/local/bin is called instead of the system one and it doesn't see the local extensions you have installed.
Hey, that *could* happen to someone, right? :)

R.


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