Re: pkg/48694: perllink creates and ignores package conflicts

[Jim Bernard <jbernard%mines.edu@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48694; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jim Bernard <jbernard%mines.edu@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/48694: perllink creates and ignores package conflicts
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 05:06:47 -0600

 On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:35:00AM +0000, OBATA Akio wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/48694; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: "OBATA Akio" <obata%lins.jp@localhost>
 > Subject: Re: pkg/48694: perllink creates and ignores package conflicts
 > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:32:34 +0900
 > 
 >  There are two way to resolve this issue:
 >  * move perllink to post-install stage, and record symlinks to PLIST
 >  * try to remove symbolic links carefully (target is owned) 
 >  
 >  Former way is probably safe, but later way may allow co-existence of
 >  "p5-Text-BibTeX" and "bibparse". 
 
   It would be very nice to allow coexistence of conflicting packages.
 
   By the way, there are two related conflicts:
      
   1) I assume there is a silent conflict between btparse and p5-Text-BibTeX,
      since the latter includes at least part of btparse internally, though
      I haven't tried installing both.
   
   2) The btparse package and the bibparse packages conflict.  In this case,
      the conflicting names are in both PLISTs, so the tools prevent the
      collision, though it would be better to permit coexistence.
      
   Thanks for the reply.