The following reply was made to PR pkg/36492; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: perkinsm@bway.net, markd@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36492: editors/emacs (22.1) conflicts with lang/elisp-manual
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:55:11 -0500 (CDT)

 On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
 
 > editors/emacs was recently updated to v22.1.  From the NEWS file:
 > 
 >     The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual in Info format is built as part of the
 >     Emacs build procedure and installed together with the Emacs User
 >     Manual.  A menu item was added to the menu bar to make it easily
 >     accessible (Help->More Manuals->Emacs Lisp Reference).
 > 
 > So now editors/emacs conflicts with lang/elisp-manual.
 
 > >Fix:
 > 
 > 
 > Need appropriate CONFLICTS statements in emacs Makefile and
 > in lang/elisp-manual.
 
 I don't use elisp. But is the lang/elisp-manual good enough or the same?
 
 Maybe editors/emacs should be taught not to install the info file --
 and either depend on the lang/elisp-manual package or don't depend on it.
 
   Jeremy C. Reed
 
 p.s. I assigned this to uebayasi (elisp-manual maintainer), but also 
 emailed this to markd (emacs maintainer).