texinfo vs. emacs...

[Jim Trigg]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 07:18:43PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:32:54PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > On 21 June 2013 15:55, Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On 21/06/2013 14:34, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > >> Installing texinfo-5.1.20130419_1...pkg-static: texinfo-5.1.20130419_1
> > >> conflicts with emacs-24.3,3 (installs files into the same place).
> > >> Problematic file: /usr/local/info/info.info.gz
> > >>
> > >> There doesn't seem to be any clean way to fix this ... hints?
> > >
> > > Add
> > >
> > > PERMISSIVE : yes
> > >
> > > to ${LOCALBASE}/etc/pkg.conf
> > >
> > > It's not really clean in that it just allows packages to stomp over each
> > > other's files, but it lets you get the job done.
> > 
> > Also, is there an env flag that does the same thing?
> > 
> All configuration in pkg.conf can also be set by env flags. so PERMISSIVE=yes
> will do the same.

OK, is there a way to do this for specific ports so that an administrator
can approve specific combinations of ports without giving blanket
permission?

Thanks,
Jim