2009/12/20 Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org>: .......... >> Somehow I had naively assumed that apache20 and apache22 were >> incompatible and could not simultaneously be installed. Did the binary >> package load ignore all conflicts? What's the proper way to approach >> these issues. Looking in the apache20 Makefile I see it conflicts with >> earlier apache, but how can it conflict with a later one? > > I think that it should. As I read it, apache22 registers a conflict > with apache20, but the reverse is not true. If you had installed them > in the other order, it would've refused to install. apache20 is the > default, so the official package was built depending on that. > > I think this should be entered as a bug, but I'm not quite positive... > clearly A conflict B is supposed to be a symmetric relation, but I guess in this case when I install apache22 it's the entire ports system that needs to record the conflicts. I don't think it's reasonable for an individual port to know that a future conflict may arise.
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