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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] perl conflicts w/perl?!
  • Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:03:41 +0200

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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