Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:21:58 +0200 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conflicting dependency Message-ID: <1153423318.47361.5.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> In-Reply-To: <17598.52872.765184.211253@gromit.timing.com> References: <17598.52872.765184.211253@gromit.timing.com>
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John E Hein p=ED=B9e v st 19. 07. 2006 v 18:30 -0600:
> Let's say there are two ports A & B.
> They both provide libfoo.so.1 (and so register CONFLICTS with each other)=
.
>=20
> Now port C wants to use libfoo (and doesn't care if it gets it
> from A or B).
> What if it lists A and someone installs B... does A get registered as
> the dependency when C is installed even though A is not installed?
Yes, A will get registered as a dependency.
There is no systematic solution to this problem at the moment.
I'd love someone (Gabor?) working on fixing this defect.
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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
<pav@FreeBSD.org>
... the obese drugged penguin used by Linux.
-- Scott Long
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