ports with leftovers

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Peter Boosten wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke said the following on 12/16/2008 9:10 PM:
>> Pointyhat is the official FreeBSD build cluster.  It is responsible for
>> building all of the official FreeBSD packages (e.g. for release
>> purposes).  It will not build packages which have leftovers.  Tinderbox
>> can be made to do that same by starting tinderbuild with the -plistcheck
>> argument.
>>
>>    
> Ah, oke, clear now. But for now: is it harmful if I build packages with
> leftovers? Or is it only a problem whenever I try to remove them?

It's a problem as installing them may yield applications which do not
work.  You must fix ALL leftover problems before packages will be truly
viable.

Joe

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