On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 08:59:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:56 -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:48:39PM -0700, Fred Cox wrote: > > > Those man pages for whatis are pretty radically > > > different in size. Maybe they are mergeable, but > > > there's going to be a fair amount of work doing that > > > for all possible conflicts. > > > > They are generated files see makewhatis(1). There will probably be a > > few real conflicts, but it's unlikely to be a serious issue. > > It may be more serious than you think. Currently, GNOME and KDE will > conflict with each other if this move happens. We will have to either > come up with a new pseudo-port to handle common files, or find some > other way of consolidating things.
That should be a pretty easy thing to check out. Just installing GNOME and KDE on the same machine and then running: "cat /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS | sort | uniq -d" would give a list of all potential duplicate files. Running pkg_which on those with both prefixes would give you all the conflicts after screening out generated files. It's certainly a real issue, but i double it's all that bad. It's not as though other projects haven't solved some version of this. -- Brooks
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