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To: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com>
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From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont)
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Subject: Re: Installing Openoffice.org-2-RC and bison conflicts
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Clint Olsen wrote:

> I'm trying to install openoffice, and some sub-portion of the port is
> installing bison2, and later it tries to install bison and then it
> complains about conflicting ports.  How is one supposed to deal with
> sub-port conflicts like these?  Why do we /ever/ allow ports to have
> conflicts with other ports?  That seems broken from the start.

I agree :-) See my proposal (2 Jun 2007 entry) at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100358&cat=ports

regards,
   Hans Lambermont