From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 07:19:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23A110656AC for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx23.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C21E8FC0C for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:19:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 14922 invoked by uid 399); 23 Jun 2008 07:19:34 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 23 Jun 2008 07:19:34 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <485F4E84.2040306@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:19:32 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Fandrey References: <20080622020728.GC13734@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <485DF018.5020703@FreeBSD.org> <485F4B7E.3040905@FreeBSD.org> <485F4DB3.3080505@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <485F4DB3.3080505@bsdforen.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Peter Jeremy , glewis@FreeBSD.org, Alex Dupre , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Issues with portmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:19:35 -0000 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: >> Portmaster uses CONFLICTS to avoid this issue. This isn't the first >> time I've heard this complaint about the java ports. I'm wondering if >> glewis could shed some light on why they don't have proper CONFLICTS set. > > Because they don't conflict. /usr/local/bin/javac is a script that selects > one of the installed JAVA VMs, dependant on what is available, environment > settings and a make variable that can be changed in make.conf. AFAICT, javac isn't relevant to the issue of whether the various jdk ports conflict with each other. It's just a convenient way to handle the dependency question within the ports framework. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection