Re: Broken binaries again

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Tue, 15 May 2012, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 04:40:08PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > >> - A lot of missing CONFLICTS (they are collected by distbb bulk builds)
> > >
> > > Frankly, most of the CONFLICTS should be just removed, not new ones
> > > added. They are prune to errors and often outdated.
> > 
> > Up-to-date and correct information is here.
> > http://mova.org/~cheusov/pub/pkgsrc-distbb/NetBSD51/HEAD/logs/20120511.1143/META/check_missing_CONFLICTS.html
> 
> And? That doesn't mean anything useful. Packages conflict automatically,
> if the PLIST overlaps. That doesn't require error-prune manual
> maintainance.


It is useful.

Yesterday I had to deinstall three python-based packages due to 
conflicts that weren't noticed until after the install phase was being 
done. (I had python26 packages installed and something wanted some 
python27 feature.)

A user shouldn't have to attempt to install a package to realize there 
is a problem.

The packages should be fixed to version the filenames as needed or add 
CONFLICTS.