Installing Openoffice.org-2-RC and bison conflicts

[Hans Lambermont]

Clint Olsen wrote:

> I'm trying to install openoffice, and some sub-portion of the port is
> installing bison2, and later it tries to install bison and then it
> complains about conflicting ports.  How is one supposed to deal with
> sub-port conflicts like these?  Why do we /ever/ allow ports to have
> conflicts with other ports?  That seems broken from the start.

I agree :-) See my proposal (2 Jun 2007 entry) at
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=100358&cat=ports

regards,
   Hans Lambermont