Re: pkgin conflict with same package

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> writes:

> I think clearly pkgin should handle this.   Two copies of a package can
> not nbe installedd at once, so a package (trivially) conflicts with
> itself.
>
> It's also true that those CONFLICTS lines are a bit much, but it's easy
> to recognize "older version of the same package we are replacing" vs
> something else.

Having read Thomas's note, I think

  if you want to fix the overzealous CONFLICTS, that's 100% ok

  if you want to add checking for that to pkglint, that would be nice

  I don't know how many more cases there are

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