On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:50:48 +0000
Alexey Dokuchaev <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 03:11:18PM +0000, Florian Smeets wrote:
> > flo         2011-06-23 15:11:18 UTC
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     www/squid            Makefile 
> >     www/squid30          Makefile 
> >     www/squid31          Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   change all squid ports from CONFLICTS to CONFLICTS_INSTALL
> >   
> >   PR:             ports/158194
> 
> This makes me wonder about the usefulness of the idea of segregate
> CONFLICTS: 1) Why do we need CONFLICTS_(BUILD|INSTALL), and 2) Why do
> we check for CONFLICTS before the build, not before installation?
> Maybe I am missing some weird scenario where some port indeed cannot
> be built in the presence of another (we have a few cases like that,
> but they are usually solved by trivial patching

Or not so trivial, in some cases.

>  (which is correct:
> marking ports as conflicting in this case would simply mask out the
> problem instead of solving it properly)?  I also do not understand
> why we preventively forbid something which would not fail: every time
> I try to build something conflicting, I get this message about "They
> install files into the same place".  Well, I am not installing
> anything yet, am I?  :-)

Yes, but usually you don't want to spend time building something you
wouldn't be able to use.


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