It's a table used by gettext for on-the-fly charset translations. If/how it's really utilized by octave, I don't know.
If removing it will adversely impact anyone, it shouldn't be too difficult to relocate it or rename it to resolve the conflict.
On 07/03/17 00:08, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
I'm not sure what charset.alias is for, but I've been previously
suggested to delete it in post-install.
It came up in a similar context, with devel/gdb conflicting with
math/octave as they installed the same file.
I've used:
post-install:
${RM} -f ${DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}/lib/charset.alias
I will amend octave to do this too (once I finish building qt and
possibly sleep before it completes)
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