conflicting dependency

[Pav Lucistnik]

John E Hein píše v st 19. 07. 2006 v 18:30 -0600:

> Let's say there are two ports A & B.
> They both provide libfoo.so.1 (and so register CONFLICTS with each other).
> 
> Now port C wants to use libfoo (and doesn't care if it gets it
> from A or B).

> What if it lists A and someone installs B... does A get registered as
> the dependency when C is installed even though A is not installed?

Yes, A will get registered as a dependency.

There is no systematic solution to this problem at the moment.
I'd love someone (Gabor?) working on fixing this defect.

-- 
Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>

... the obese drugged penguin used by Linux.
  -- Scott Long
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