Re: pkg/49494: editors/gedit3 package issues

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49494: editors/gedit3 package issues
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 04:33:10 +0000

 On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 11:45:01PM +0000, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
  >  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.
 
 Is it even possible to install the two versions together (without
 hacking them up a lot...)? If not, there's no point trying to massage
 the packaging.
 
  >  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.)
 
 Well... any conflicts that appear are handled by pkg_install, but that
 doesn't happen until you've compiled and try to install. So for cases
 people are likely to trip on (especially with large packages) it's
 nice to set the explicit CONFLICTS too so it fails early.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost