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Date:      Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:17:15 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1050675588.981e42@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: imake 1.0 vs. 4.3.0
Message-ID:  <20030413231715.GA53083@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <16025.29187.398575.236430@guru.mired.org>
References:  <20030412214156.GA72155@gicco.homeip.net> <20030412225822.GA89415@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030413075730.GA56425@gicco.homeip.net> <16025.29187.398575.236430@guru.mired.org>

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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 09:19:47AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> In <20030413075730.GA56425@gicco.homeip.net>, Hanspeter Roth <hampi@roots=
hell.be> typed:
> >   On Apr 12 at 15:58, Kris Kennaway spoke:
> > > imake is for XFree86 3.x.  You have to remove it before you can
> > > install 4.x
> > Are conflicting ports not handled by the ports system?
>=20
> They aren't detected by the ports system, and it will let you install
> ports that overwrite parts of other ports or the system.

I will soon be committing patches that allow packages to register
conflicts.

> > How can one know whether there are conflicts with other ports?
>=20
> Usually because the names are similar.
>=20
> I'm not sure where Kris got the idea that imake couldn't coexist with
> XFree86 4. I've got imake 4.3.0 installed as well as XFree86 4.3, and
> haven't had any problems. For that matter, I have a slew of ports that
> are tagged as depending on imake, though why they should depend on it
> after the build I don't know.

When I said imake I meant the imake port (imake-1.0) as opposed to the
imake-4 port (imake-4.3.0).

Kris

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