The following reply was made to PR pkg/36492; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, perkinsm@bway.net
Subject: Re: pkg/36492: editors/emacs (22.1) conflicts with lang/elisp-manual
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:09:59 +1200

 On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 > > So now editors/emacs conflicts with lang/elisp-manual.
 > >
 > > >Fix:
 > >
 > > Need appropriate CONFLICTS statements in emacs Makefile and
 > > in lang/elisp-manual.
 >
 > I don't use elisp. But is the lang/elisp-manual good enough or the
 > same?
 >
 > Maybe editors/emacs should be taught not to install the info file
 > -- and either depend on the lang/elisp-manual package or don't
 > depend on it.
 
 So thats where the elisp manual package is.  I went looking for it 
 when I upgraded emacs but couldn't find it (because I was looking for 
 emacs not elisp).
 
 To answer Jeremy's question, the elisp manual used to be shipped 
 separately but with emacs22 its now bundled and there isn't a 
 separate version so yes it needs the CONFLICTS statements.
 
 cheers
 mark