Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 15:12:09 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Cc: lifanov@freebsd.org, Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> Subject: [feature idea] Allow duplicate files with the same content Message-ID: <96dbc99f-3a21-423d-18b8-6737c5517ff8@rawbw.com>
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Problem: Currently several py-backports-* ports install the same __init__.py file into the same location. This is the only conflict between several ports. This was by design, because they didn't think it matters to overwrite the same file installed by another package. [1] I am suggesting to solve this by introducing this feature into pkg: * pkg will ignore duplicate files installed by multiple packages if their content is identical * pkg will maintain the reference count for each installed file, and will silently delete it once the last package using it is uninstalled. This automatically solves the above problem, and can also be useful in some other cases when the same installed file needs to be shared by two or more packages. Opinions? I am equally okay with both thumbs-up and thumbs-down. References: [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219794 [2] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D11095 Yuri
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