Perl error, once and for all

[Joshua Root]

Scott Haneda wrote:
> I have seen many posts, where a
> port is not installing.  The reply from other users has been "you need
> to -f it, some ports are just that way", and that is not the right info,
> it will spiral out of control, to the point where as illustrated above,
> they blindly -f things.  -f is for when you know what you are doing, it
> should not be propagating as a solution.

You should've seen the situation pre-1.7. You had to use -f half the
time to uninstall old inactive versions of ports. And yes, some users
ended up blindly using -f for everything, sometimes with undesired
consequences.

We are getting better, slowly but surely. :-)

What the perl situation needs is someone who understands the issue to
just get in and get the job done. The ticket has well and truly hit
maintainer timeout by now.

- Josh