gnome2 requires xscreensaver-gnome, conflicts with xscreensaver

[Steven Friedrich]

On Friday 08 February 2008 09:22:07 pm Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 20:41 , Steven Friedrich wrote:
> > I am running 7.0-RC2.  I have both kde and gnome installed, but I'm
> > wondering
> > how I did it, because I'm trying to force a reinstall of gnome2 and
> > it's
> > trying to install xscreensaver-gnome, which fails because
> > xscreensaver is
> > installed, which kde wants.
>
> Last time I did this, installing KDE before GNOME caused this but
> installing GNOME first worked because KDE was happy to use
> xscreensaver-gnome if that was already installed.

Thanks Brandon.

In case anyone searches these messages, here's what I did.
pkg_deinstall -f xscreensaver
portupgrade -N xscreensaver-gnome
pkgdb -F (changed dependencies from xscreensaver to xscreensaver-gnome)
portupgrade -f kdeartwork-xscreensaver-kde kdeartwork kde