Subject: Re: BUILD_CONFLICTS?
To: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/28/2002 16:12:37
On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Frank Cusack wrote:
> Is anyone "warm" to the idea of a BUILD_CONFLICTS var?  I'm thinking
> specifically of a case where a [pkg-] installed library causes a
> package being built to link against it; but you don't want the runtime
> dependency.  It may be easier to just have a BUILD_CONFLICTS than to
> "fix" config scripts.
>
> Or if something like this already exists, let me know. :-)

The only situation where this would make sense (you want to make a binary
pkg, but not really install/use the pkg) is during bulk builds, and they
have other ways to fix that problem properly (by not having anything
unneeded installed).


 - Hubert

-- 
Want to get a clue on IPv6 but don't know where to start? Try this:
* Basics -> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/05/24/ipv6_tutorial.html
* Setup  -> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/06/01/ipv6_tutorial.html
Of course with your #1 IPv6 ready operating system -> http://www.NetBSD.org/