Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/databases

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

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:22:31AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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.
> 
> That doesn't help source builds.
> 
> (This has been pointed out repeatedly before, and always reaches the
> same conclusion. Can we please stop thrashing it?)

There is no problem with source builds. They fail correctly whether
CONFLICTS is set or not. They fail slightly earlier with manual
CONFLICTS, but that's not even a significant difference.

Joerg