[oe] proper way to report(?) conflicting files being installed?

Ross Burton ross at burtonini.com
Thu Mar 19 17:58:10 UTC 2020


On 19/03/2020 17:32, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>    this does seem backwards ... if both gnome-common and
>> autoconf-archive currently try to install those two m4-related files,
>> doing the above pretty much *assures* an installation conflict,
>> ...
> 
> No, --with-autoconf-archive makes gnome-common not install the
> conflicting files.

I should point out that gnome-common is dead upstream and mostly unused 
now, so if you find a recipe using it do check that it is actually needed.

Ross


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