Re: pkgsrc name collisions

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Mon, 2023-01-30 at 23:13 -0500, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 22:52:24 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > The following packages have colliding names in different categories:
> > 
> > {fonts,sysutils}/gnome-font-viewer
> 
> [...]
> 
> > gnome-font-viewer and mdp are PKGBASE collisions.  The two
> > gnome-font-viewers appear to be the same software (imported and then
> > updated at different times), but in the case of mdp, this means
> > pkg_add or pkgin will try to install the wrong package for `mdp' if
> > you want misc/mdp because mbone/mdp has a higher version number.
> 
> The gnome-font-viewer one I flagged back a couple of years ago[1]. No
> one ever responded, so I guess we could take that as no objection to
> removing one of them. (I'd forgotten about this topic.)
> 
> IIRC, I did find that the newer of the two under sysutils built for
> me,
> but then crashed on startup. I haven't tried it recently.
> 
> 1. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/08/18/msg034254.html
> 
> Dave
> 

I've now removed fonts/gnome-font-viewer.

Dave