KDE and GNOME release packages do not play well together

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> John Baldwin ha scritto:
> > This would appear to no longer be a supported use case in for 8.2 packages
> > (and if you believe posts on the forums, 8.1 was equally broken).  Namely,
> > some package the GNOME depends on wants to use unixODBC, and some other
> > package that KDE depends on wants to use libiodbc.  The simplest suggestion in
> > the forums appears to be to change the gnome package (devel/ptlib26) to use
> > libiodbc instead.
> 
> Even if it could be simpler (is it?), I think unixODBC is a more common 
> choice these days, so changing the KDE ports could be better.

Both ports CONFLICT right now, only because both install 

/usr/local/include/sql.h

Otherwise, they could be installed in parallel and there would be
no problem.

The contents of include/sql.h is very similar, because it contains
the interface definitions of ODBC (mostly 'defines').

> I don't have personal experience, but the two ports should be completely 
> interchangeable, so we could add support for USE_ODBC in 
> bsd.databases.mk and allow the user to choose the odbc implementation 
> (with one [unixODBC?] as default to create consistent packages).

As far as I heard from some ppl, they are not 100% interchangeable.

Maybe some clever construct of ifdef in a generic sql.h
and two install-locations for the two sql.h files would
help to resolv the CONFLICT ?

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