ports/70328: conflict between different versions of lang/tcl* and x11-toolkits/tk*

[Dirk Meyer]

The following reply was made to PR ports/70328; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dirk.meyer at dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer)
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/70328: conflict between different versions
	of lang/tcl* and	x11-toolkits/tk*
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:13:14 +0200

 Don Lewis schrieb:,
 
 > 	Different versions of the tcl ports conflict with each other
 >         because they all install their man pages in the same location.
 > 	The same is true of the tk ports.
 
 all tcl/tk manpages go into "mann", call it historic reason.
 Diffrent tcl/tk versions install the same manpage at the same locaion.
 This is intended, The common manpages have only minor differences.
 
 If you deinstall the ports in any order, all manpages are removed.
 
 > 	Either a CONFLICTS statement should be added to the Makefiles or
 >         the man pages should be installed in tcl/tk version-specific
 >         directories.
 
 both will be harmfull.
 
 - CONFLICTS will keep useres from ruinning more then one version.
   diffrent versions are needed for Applications
   cause tcl/tk API changed so much.
 
 - moving man in a diffrent path will obsolete tutorials and handbooks
   There might be even application that fails.
 
 I would like to hear more arguments why the current state gives problems.
 
 kind regards Dirk
 
 - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
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