Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/databases

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 09:12:37AM +0400, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
> We do not need any CONFLICTS in packages that either
> a) have support staged installation or
> b) have static PLIST.
> There's no technical justification to keep it.
> Package conflict is a fact that is detected automatically already.

This is not completely true. There is a valid reason for setting
CONFLICTS if the overlap is in files that are not in the PLIST.
E.g. if the only conflict is in configuration files etc.

Use by pkgin is no justification, there could be a separate index
computed for a set of binary packages that provides conflict hints.

Joerg