On 20 Nov 1999, Marc Horowitz wrote:

> is there a "right way" to deal with a package which replaces files in a nother
> package?

Not really. There is '@options preserve' for the PLIST that will work for
binary package, but that's it. Nothing that the majority of people will
want.


> in particular, I want to create a package for a newer Getopt::Long
> than the one which ships with perl.  make install complains:
> 
>     pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/Getopt/Long.pm - pkg perl-5.00404 bogus/conflicting?
>     pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/newgetopt.pl - pkg perl-5.00404 bogus/conflicting?
>     p5-Getopt-Long-2.20 requires installed package perl-5.00404

Upgrade our perl? Install to site-lib (or whatever that's called in perl)


 - Hubert

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