pkgng/pkgng — Issue #166: Improve conflict detection before downloading packages
Author: rpaulo
Created: 2012-03-05 02:37:37+00:00
State: open

If you type:

# pkg install subversion
pkgng will download subversion 1.6 and 1.7.2. Luckily, it doesn't install them because they conflict.

IMHO, pkgng should be smart enough to find there are conflicts before downloading and:
1) pick the more recent version, or if this fails
2) ask the user to resolve the conflict before initiating the download