FreeBSD ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Fri Aug 20 08:11:08 PDT 2004


Scot Hetzel wrote:

> [...] The main problem with
> the port is if you have apache13 installed and then try to install the
> mod_frontpage2(apache2 only) port, you'll get compile errors.  Same
> with apache2 installed and installing mod_frontpage13 (apache13 only)
> port.
>
> Conflict checking for the apache* ports doesn't prevent the port from
> trying to build.

CONFLICTS is strictly restricted to hinder two ports to install the same 
files, not compilation or other problems. If you need to check for 
compilation problems you should do this in pre-build, if you have 
functional incompatibilities in a port please use pkg-req.

-Oliver



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