Casper's done a fine job of answering your questions, but one IPS note on #5 ...
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 05:01:23AM -0800, Gary Gendel wrote: > 5) What about conflicting products. Example: > In both of the packages above, or a Postfix package, the "sendmail" > program must be overridden with the one in the installing package. How > does something like this get resolved? Do I just rename the existing > sendmail program? Does the "last one installed" win? Right now, it does, but that's broken. IPS should prevent multiple packages from installing the same file (at least, if it's not identical). It currently does that when you install them at the same time, but not when installing them separately. > Where can I find the answers to these kinds of questions and others about > IPS when they become apparent? When you have IPS-specific questions, feel free to ask them on pkg-discuss. Thanks, Danek
