On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:01:57PM -0600, Ryan Schmidt said: [...] > > We should also consider forcing MacPorts base to always use vital > utilities like ln and touch via their absolute paths in /bin or /usr/bin > and not allow a MacPorts version to interfere. We might consider the same > for tar, gzip, bzip2, etc, to avoid the occasional problem with the > MacPorts versions of those utilities, e.g. the thread "error apache2 from > macports 1.70" earlier today:
For some tools (eg, rm) which are definitely guaranteed to be system-installed and acceptable, that makes sense. For others, there's #15868: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15868> So using the system-installed version (svn in that case) would make things worse... Bryan > > http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2009-January/013335.html > _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
