On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > it's misleading.  think you are building a package with dependencies and
> > one of its deps fails to install because it's already installed (e.g.
> > while using just "make install", not "make update").  you will tell the
> > user to run "make deinstall" in the current directory, which is
> > completely bogus.
>
> Um, the pkg in question is printed two lines above, do you really think
> that's a problem?
>
> 	...
> 	===> bochs-2.1 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
> 	*** If so, you may use either of:
> 	***  - "make deinstall" and "make reinstall" to upgrade properly
> 	***  - "make update" to rebuild the package and all of its dependencies
> 	***  - "make replace" to replace only the package without re-linking
> 	***    dependencies, risking various problems.
> 	*** Error code 1

BTW, the same problem exists for the already existing 'make update' and
'make replace' recommendations...


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>