cvs commit: ports/lang/gcc42 Makefile

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
>>   Log:
>>   lang/gfortran is gone; remove CONFLICTS.
> Are you sure it's a good idea? We usually keep CONFLICTS around for 
> months/years after the conflicting port is gone to make life easier
> for people who only update once in a long while.

I consulted
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/conflicts.html
and
  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ports.html#Q12.2.1.
and could not find anything on this question (either way, to be fair).

In this specific case (lang/gfortran vs lang/gcc42) I am pretty sure that 
users won't run into this.  Among others, lang/gfortran has not been a 
dependency for quite a while (months, except for one fringe port which 
broke that dependency more than six weeks ago); MOVED has a redirect from 
lang/gfortran to lang/gcc42; and adding lang/gcc42 on top of lang/gfortran 
does not gain anything because these two have been pure aliases for quite 
some months.

(If you feel strongly about this, I have no objections to re-add the
CONFLICTS line again.)

Adding a general recommendation along the lines of your comment to
our Committer's Guide sounds like a good idea, though.  It'll help
me remember this next time around. ;-)

Proposed patch below.  Is this portmgr material or can one of those
doc committers around take care of that?

Gerald @FreeBSD.org

--- article.sgml.orig	2007-04-09 14:23:55.168970750 +0200
+++ article.sgml	2007-04-09 14:27:38.126904750 +0200
@@ -2473,6 +2473,11 @@ docs:Documentation Bug:freebsd-doc:</pro
 	      </listitem>
 	    </itemizedlist>
 
+	    <para>When removing one of several conflicting ports, it is
+	      advisable to retain the <makevar>CONFLICT</makevar> entries
+	      in those other ports for a few months to cater for users who
+	      only update once in a while.</para>
+
 	    <para>Alternatively, you can use the <command>rmport</command>
 	      script, from <filename role="directory">ports/Tools/scripts</filename>.
 	      This script has been written by &a.vd;, who is also its current