Xscreensaver conflicts

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org
Thu Jun 14 13:23:07 UTC 2012


Lars Eighner <portsuser at larseighner.com> writes:

> xscreensaver-gnome-hacks will not install if xscreensaver is installed
> ("write files to the same place")
>
> gnome requires xscreensaver-gnome-hacks
>
> kde4 requires xscreensaver
>
> It appears to me that if you force pkg_delete of xscreensaver and install
> xscreensaver-gnome-hacks first, you can reinstall xscreensaver without
> complaints.
>
> I grepped UPDATING for xscreensaver without any hits and do not find this
> documented.  I suspect the conflicts line in the Makefile
> xscreensave-gnome-hacks is not accurate.

The pkg-plist files have a number of common entries, so my suspicion
would be the opposite; that xscreensaver ought to have a corresponding
CONFLICTS line. 

Gnome can be configured (by an option) to use xscreensaver, if I'm
reading the Makefile correctly.


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