Re: How to ensure pkgsrc groff is preferred over groff in base

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 03:26:21PM +0000, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
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> I've found that having copies of programs in the base when you want to be using the pkgsrc ones is fairly error prone.  If simply changing the PATH works for you great, but I've needed to take a more heavy handed approach in the past.
> In an ideal world the base groff would be recorded in a form where you could just pkg_delete it, but since it's not I'd recommend deleting the unneeded binaries by hand.

Wow.  I strongly disagree: set the PATH properly and don't erase stuff.

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