math/ess CONFLICTS with devel/noweb, help with CONFLICTS= needed

Max Brazhnikov makc at freebsd.org
Sat Jun 9 11:46:29 UTC 2012


On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:03:49 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> However, plain CONFLICTS is the popular choice for Makefiles, as it
> takes effect before you waste too much time building a package you can't
> install.
>
> In principle, CONFLICTS_INSTALL is frequently going to be the more
> "correct" choice.  In practice, it seems to be up to the port maintainer
> to choose which to specify, and most just use plain CONFLICTS.

CONFLICTS_INSTALL/BUILD are relatively new, that's why they are less spread than plain CONFLICTS.

Max


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