ports/61985: A suggestion for CONFLICTS in ports

[michael johnson]

>Number:         61985
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       A suggestion for CONFLICTS in ports
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 27 02:20:13 PST 2004
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>Originator:     michael johnson
>Release:        5.2-CURRENT
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>Environment:
FreeBSD gentoo.ahze.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #32: Fri Jan 23 12:07:32 EST 2004     ahze at gentoo.ahze.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Gentoo  i386
>Description:
The CONFLICTS feature in ports is a nice feature but I feel it is lacking a simple but useful feature. I know about DISABLE_CONFLICTS, but I feel it would be nice to also be able to do something like, OVERRIDE_CONFLICTS="thttpd-2.* apache-2.*", and this would allow apache2 and thttpd, to be installed on the same box with out ports telling me they conflict. 

I looked at bsd.port.mk and I wasn't quite sure where to begin so I am just sending this as a simple suggestion. 

Thanks, 
  Michael Johnson

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