Re: pkg/57974: Depends conflict for firefox AND postgres

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

The following reply was made to PR pkg/57974; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: Gnats Bugs <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/57974: Depends conflict for firefox AND postgres
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:49:42 -0400

 On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 at 17:10:52 +0000, Joey wrote:
 > yes, i set -cups as described in mk.conf. thank you for the assistance.
 > 
 > if there are things i can do to help dig in, i would like to
 > contribute. the caveat is I don't know where to start, the tools to
 > use, or how to use then. what i mean is, i may not be very helpful :/
 
 Well, I think the issue actually arose because of a different
 dependency chain than the one you indicated. But I don't know offhand
 what it would be. In any case, there is already something in place in
 pkgsrc to potentially handle the chain you reported. In general, it's
 not realistic to avoid package conflicts entirely, except for using an
 entirely different approach like Flatpaks or something, which is not
 the pkgsrc way of doing things.
 
 I'm going to mark this as resolved.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave