On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 11:48:42PM +0100, Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi Franco, > > Am 08.01.2019 um 15:58 schrieb Franco Fichtner: > > Explicit CONFLICTS only exist within the ports tree > > during builds. > > > > pkg detects conflicts simply when files are attempted > > to be installed in the same place -- i.e. a file already > > belongs to another installed package. > > hm, this will not help, as the conflicting file is created at runtime > and not by the installation of the package and can therefor not be > detected by pkg. > > I do not understand why the CONFLICTS_INSTALL does exist: > http://www.si.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/conflicts.html > > if it does not work. > Maybe a bug or has the documentation to be updated?
CONFLICTS, CONFLICTS_BUILD and CONFLICTS_INSTALL exist to tell the user building the port that the port they are trying to install cannot be built-or-installed/build/installed while this other port is installed. -- Mathieu Arnold
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