Re: What's a good way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

2008-02-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Feb 17, 2008, at 11:52 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: I've been asked to come up with at least an interim approach -- that can be implemented within a few days -- to allow the SAs at my new job to install conflicting ports on the same machine. [...] The catalyst for the exercise is that we

What's a good way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

2008-02-17 Thread David Wolfskill
I've been asked to come up with at least an interim approach -- that can be implemented within a few days -- to allow the SAs at my new job to install conflicting ports on the same machine. I can think of some approaches, but I'd prefer to use one that doesn't suck too much, and that doesn't

Re: What's a good way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

2008-02-17 Thread James
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 11:52 -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: I've been asked to come up with at least an interim approach -- that can be implemented within a few days -- to allow the SAs at my new job to install conflicting ports on the same machine. I can think of some approaches, but I'd

Re: What's a good way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

2008-02-17 Thread Miroslav Lachman
David Wolfskill wrote: I've been asked to come up with at least an interim approach -- that can be implemented within a few days -- to allow the SAs at my new job to install conflicting ports on the same machine. I can think of some approaches, but I'd prefer to use one that doesn't suck too

Re: What's a good way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

2008-02-17 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:52:59AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: The catalyst for the exercise is that we have some pools of machines for developers to use; some of the developers wish to use editors/xemacs; some wish to use editors/emacs -- on the same machine. (Given the requirement, it's OK

Re: What's a good way to handle installation of conflicting ports?

2008-02-17 Thread Danny Pansters
Interesting question... On Sunday 17 February 2008 20:52:59 David Wolfskill wrote: I've been asked to come up with at least an interim approach -- that can be implemented within a few days -- to allow the SAs at my new job to install conflicting ports on the same machine. I can think of some