On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:31:43 -0500
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:35:15 -0600
> Min Sik Kim <minskim@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > Please read the TODO file before you import a package from pkgsrc-wip.
> 
> I did.
> 
> > As TODO says, this package currently conflicts with many other
> > packages, including itself with different PYPKGPREFIX.
> 
> Are you talking about the TODO in the package itself?  That file says;
> 
> "Make scripts installed with ${PYPKGSUFX} so they don't conflict each
> other
> when it is installed for >1 versions of Python."
> 
> Now, it may be that the scripts conflict with other programs but I read
> this as being a nice-to-have for situations where someone has more than
> one version of Python installed and wants Pyro for all of them.  It is
> still a useful package in the usual case.

A user may install it with different versions of Python without
knowing that they will conflict.  After deinstalling one of them,
he/she will find that the package doesn't work any more due to missing
files.

Such a scenario should not happen in pkgsrc.  If the problem is
already known, it should be fixed in pkgsrc-wip.  IMO, it is not just
a nice-to-have but a must.

> Do you know of any conflicts with other packages?  That would be a
> different issue and would probably warrant a CONFLICTS line.

Yes, this is another issue.  The following files exist in other
packages' PLISTs.

  bin/es in shells/es
  bin/ns in net/ns
  bin/esd in audio/esound

-- 
Min Sik Kim