Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:19:32 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, glewis@FreeBSD.org, Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Issues with portmaster Message-ID: <485F4E84.2040306@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <485F4DB3.3080505@bsdforen.de> References: <20080622020728.GC13734@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <485DF018.5020703@FreeBSD.org> <485F4B7E.3040905@FreeBSD.org> <485F4DB3.3080505@bsdforen.de>
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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
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