Subject: Conflicts entry to pkgsrc
To: Thorsten Frueauf <frueauf@ira.uka.de>
From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/06/1998 08:06:00
I wanted to thank you for making the conflicts entry, and ask a question.

Now that we have a conflicts directive, is there a way we can add something
that lets you specify multiple depends.  Like xemacs for example:

It wants a dependency of Xaw-3d, but Xaw-Xpm would work too.  And if you have
Xaw-Xpm.. the conflict directive will stop it from building wont it?

It would be nice to say something like:

DEPENDS= Xaw-3d.1.0 || Xaw-Xpm.1.0

There are probably a few other things that we will run into like this in the
future..  An example that comes to mind is lesstif.

Also.. something that occured to me just now.. Things like pine and elm, which
both want to install pico (last time I checked elm still did).  So if you place
a confilcts directive for pico, can you only install one?

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