[Bug 192642] update mail/mailagent to a non-interactive, regular port

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192642

--- Comment #11 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to ykasap from comment #10)
> Thank you very much for your detailed comments.
> 
> (In reply to John Marino from comment #9)
> > (In reply to ykasap from comment #0)
> > >   Add pkg-install to create empty mailagent.orgname file.
> > 
> > What's the purpose of this and should this never be removed?  In other
> > words, it's correct to have a pkg-install without a pkg-deinstall?
> 
> The file is removed by pkg-plist upon deinstall if it is still empty,
> but I understand it is better handled by pkg-install/pkg-deinstall pair.

well, if it works in pkg-plist, you can leave it there.  I was mainly concerned
if there was code at all to deal with it and it sounds like there is.


> I guess the original intention of the symlink of example is to keep
> compatibility with the original (non-port) mailagent installation.  
> I think it is okay to install them in one place and notify
> user in pkg-message.

Don't bother; it would in effect say, "examples are where examples normally
are" or "the copy of examples are no longer in a non-standard place".  No user
is going to be hurt by one less copy of examples.

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