rar-3.51,1

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Tue Mar 28 17:40:54 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-Mar-27 15:30:49 -0500, Michael Knoll wrote:
>Upon reinstalling compat5x I noticed the message about the startup
>script it installed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.  This message flew up the
>screen when I installed rar, since it installed compat5x as a
>dependancy then automatically moved on to rar.  Checking this script I
>noticed I needed to add
>
>compat5x_enable="YES"

I got bitten by the same problem yesterday.  Is here a reason why the
the compat_Xx packages don't default to being enabled?  This is very
easy to miss since they're usually installed as a requirement for
some other port and used to automatically enable.

-- 
Peter Jeremy


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