Re: CONFLICTS variable is terrible

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Subject: Re: CONFLICTS variable is terrible
From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:38:21 +0900

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:37:46 +0900, Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> 
wrote:

> 1) TONS of packages do not set CONFLICTS variable properly.

Yes, it is.

> 2) I wrote wip/pkg_conflicts to automate checks for CONFLICTS.

It's nice, but seems some redundant.
For example, ap13-* v.s. ap22-*.

> 3) Why not to remove CONFLICTS variable at all?

How to detect CONFLISTS before installation from source?
And how about conflicts with older version, already resolved with current 
version?

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OBATA Akio / obache%NetBSD.org@localhost

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