Re: pkg/53236: graphics/gegl conflicts with sysutils/coreutils

[Joern Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joern Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
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Subject: Re: pkg/53236: graphics/gegl conflicts with sysutils/coreutils
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 09:04:13 +0200

 >   What do you think should be done about it? Renaming either seems
 >   potentially problematic, although gegl less so.
 >   
 >   also this is probably something it would be good to take up with gegl
 >   upstream... installing coreutils with a 'g' prefix is not at all
 >   uncommon.
 
 As minimal band-aid, CONFLICTS entries in both packages could alert the 
 user a little bit earlier.
 
 As for a real fix: I don't know. Are there examples, how pkgsrc dealt 
 with this kind of problem in the past? I think, this needs an agreement 
 among the pkgsrc maintainers. I could imagine renaming the gegl one to 
 "gcut-gegl", mainly because it came later and is probably less prone to 
 break scripts already in use that refer to the core-utils version.
 
 Is the "g" prefix really that common? If anybody wants to discuss this 
 with upstream, I think that person should be able to speak on behalf of 
 pkgsrc, so that job is better left to the package maintainer.
 
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