[oe] [RFC] adding CONFLICTS

Graeme Gregory dp at xora.org.uk
Thu Nov 15 08:02:22 UTC 2007


On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:33:41 +0200
Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> Since we don't have packaged staging yet, what do people thing about
> adding CONFLICTS to packages the interfere with eachother like e.g.
> medialibraries like sdl and their hacked-up qte versions, multiple
> kernels (linux-foo and linux-foo-devel) etc...
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> regards,
> 
> Koen

This sounds good in theory as long as bitbake actually chokes with
a sensible error message.

Hopefully then it makes uses more aware what went wrong.

Graeme




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