Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:01:37 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu> Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.2-RC2 Install Feedback Message-ID: <a333b2be0904301101t30f97d99i928a4d78195ca62f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1241110520.72951.11.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <E1LzWjP-0003pD-HO@jdl.com> <1241110520.72951.11.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 08:55 -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote: > > Also, I banged my head against problems installing emacs > > (aborted with error -1), until I finally realized that > > xemacs-21.4 was already installed. I think there was some > > form of conflict (?) that prevented two versions from > > being installed. Seemed odd to me in any event, and not > > very evident why the (package) install was being rejected. > > This basic issue (package conflicts) has been becoming more and more of > a problem. It's not likely we can do anything about it this time around > but we'll think a bit more about what to include on the media going > forwards. I also found Gnome2 and KDE4 are mutually exclusive due to > package conflicts, you need to select one or the other. > > Just so you know - if there are issues with installing things and errors > pop up you can often quickly find what the cause of the error was by > pressing Alt-F2. You can get back to the primary screen with Alt-F1. > > -- > Ken Smith > - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu > there, funny things are everywhere. | > - Theodore Geisel | > > In the www.freebsd.org Ports pages , within the descriptions about ports , there is no any information about conflicting packages . In these descriptions , when there is ( are ) conflicted package(s) specifying it with a tag such as Conflicts with : ... would be useful . During installations , or package adds such conflicting packages may be avoided . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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