[Slackbuilds-users] unmentioned SlackBuild system overwrites of Slackware

[David Chmelik]

I like Plan 9 (official successor to AT&T UNIX so my college computer 
science system administrator endorsed Plan 9) so installed plan9port and 
maybe other utilities.  I needed an advanced mount command: typed 'man 
mount'.  Manpage had been replaced by a Plan 9 manpage.  If someone 
wants Slackware Plan 9, fine, but, please warn and document in README.  
It may be broken: removepkg said 'xargs: unmatched double quote; by 
default quotes are special to xargs unless you use the -0 option'.  
Manpage remained afterwards but day after removal, my manpage is back to 
normal.  I'm not 100% sure plan9port did it but didn't find/remove any 
other Plan 9 stuff so likely plan9port overwrites Slackware (manpages) 
with no documentation to warn.

This is also why as much as I love fonts (as an artist/writer) I removed 
all fonts I installed from SlackBuilds.org years ago and am not 
installing any more.  One in 2010s overwrote defaults and made my X 
Window System font too small/unreadable.  Is the policy don't overwrite 
system 100% enforced/fixed for fonts yet, or could I just backup font 
configuration directory then restore it after installing?

Hats off to whoever made dropbear.SlackBuild to change (years ago) from 
overwriting sshd.  At the time I couldn't SSH into my servers, but 
that's fixed after update/reinstall of dropbear.  I like to test/learn 
all sorts of new software including system & network but generally want 
to read/configure by myself.

If people want to change defaults, they'll read about it and do it. 
Don't just do that automatically like one expects on WIndows, Apple, 
Ubuntu, Android.