Re: pkg/49494: editors/gedit3 package issues

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49494; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49494: editors/gedit3 package issues
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:41:59 -0500

 On 2014-12-28, at 5:15 PM, Patrick Welche wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/49494; it has been noted by =
 GNATS.
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 > From: Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, =
 pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Subject: Re: pkg/49494: editors/gedit3 package issues
 > Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 22:14:00 +0000
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 > On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 03:00:00AM +0000, dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost =
 wrote:
 >> There are two issues I've found with the gedit and gedit3 packages:
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 >> - The make file for both doesn't mark them as conflicting packages,
 >> though they both install bin/gedit and bin/gnome-text-editor.
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 > gedit and gedit3 both have the same PKGNAME =3D gedit - is there any
 > reason you want to have both versions of gedit installed at once
 
 I'm not concerned about it myself, but I can imagine a scenario where
 someone is used to gedit 2 and wants to try out gedit 3 to compare.
 How likely that is, who knows; not a big deal.
 
 > wiz@ clarified CONFLICTS in the meantime:
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 >   19.1.7. Handling conflicts with other packages
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 >   Your package may conflict with other packages a user might already =
 have
 >   installed on his system, e.g. if your package installs the same set =
 of files as
 >   another package in the pkgsrc tree or has the same PKGNAME.
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 >   These cases are handled automatically by the packaging tools at =
 package
 >   installation time and do not need to be handled manually.
 >   ...
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 > so the case of "same PKGNAME" should be handled automatically.
 
 This appears to be a case then where packages don't necessarily match
 the documentation, e.g. editors/abiword (which I was looking at in
 detail of late) uses CONFLICTS redundantly if I understand the
 stipulation/expectation correctly. (And I'd inferred it was for explicit
 documentation purposes as well.)
 
 >> - Since the update to the 3.14 series, gedit3 doesn't take into
 >> account that in order to be usable, it really needs to have an
 >> explicit dependency marked on graphics/adwaita-icon-theme, otherwise
 >> various icons will be missing, and as this new version has done away
 >> with the traditional menu system, it's a bit crippled without these
 >> icons. Without that package installed, I'm presented with various
 >> unlabelled buttons and can't even see the close icon on tabs.
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 > Thanks: I added the depedency.
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 > Does this wrap things up sufficiently?
 
 I think so, yes, thanks.
 
 Dave