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Date:      Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:19:32 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>, glewis@FreeBSD.org, Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Issues with portmaster
Message-ID:  <485F4E84.2040306@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <485F4DB3.3080505@bsdforen.de>
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Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:

>> Portmaster uses CONFLICTS to avoid this issue. This isn't the first 
>> time I've heard this complaint about the java ports. I'm wondering if 
>> glewis could shed some light on why they don't have proper CONFLICTS set.
> 
> Because they don't conflict. /usr/local/bin/javac is a script that selects
> one of the installed JAVA VMs, dependant on what is available, environment
> settings and a make variable that can be changed in make.conf.

AFAICT, javac isn't relevant to the issue of whether the various jdk 
ports conflict with each other. It's just a convenient way to handle the 
dependency question within the ports framework.

Doug

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