First port installation fails
Richard Tobin
richard at inf.ed.ac.uk
Thu Dec 13 07:50:11 PST 2007
> As the
> error message says:
>
> "You must install or activate this package with '-f' (force) as it
> needs to overwrite files installed by the perl5.8 port"
The problem is not that the error message isn't clear. It's that you
don't expect to get error messages during port installations unless
your port system is messed up. There's no indication that this
particular error is expected.
-- Richard
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