ports that should use CONFLICTS

[Thomas-Martin Seck]

* Adam Weinberger <adamw at freebsd.org> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]:

>>> (10.10.2003 @ 1112 PST): Thomas-Martin Seck said, in 1.9K: <<
>> It seems that pkg_add should be tought to ignore unknown declarations in
>> package files.
> 
> What does that mean?

pkg_add(1) bails out when it reads unknown @ -directives.

> Whether people are likely to install them in parallel or not is rather
> irrelevant. The point is that they conflict with each other, and the
> user should be aware that they will overwrite each other.

Well, to me it was always obvious that, e.g., www/squid would overwrite
www/squid24.

>> Same here. But since squid-2.4 is not officially supported by the squid
>> team anymore, I suggest to remove it completely.
> 
> Regardless, they overwrite each other, and thus a CONFLICTS line should
> be added.

Well, I admit that I do not quite understand which problem CONFLICTS
tries to solve. The porter's handbook is rather vague about it. In my
opinion, CONFLICTS is useful but only to point out not-obvious
incompatibilities. Using it to signal every kind of "duplicate file
installation" would make mutt CONFLICT with tin since both install
an mbox(5) document.