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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:44:09PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting "Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>:
> > why is perl conflicts withitself? cast fix will not fix it (libdb 
> > version) 
> > because it 
> > conflicts with itself.  That's not cool.
> 
> The reason this is a problem is that perl is considered sustained software 
> (I
> forget why, any ideas?).  I believe perl won't compile properly if it exists
> during the compilation, so conflicts was supposed to take care of this, but 
> it
> will not dispel itself due to being sustained.
> 
> Ideas? Corrections?
> 
> -sandalle
 
I just removed the CONFLICTS file from the perl spell and it compiled
and installed just fine.

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