Bug 341741 – app-accessibility/speech-tools mail-client/nmh file collision: /usr/bin/dp

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Giulio Bottazzi 2010-10-19 09:08:31 UTC]

I tried to emerge app-accessibility/speech-tools. Installation failed because the it would have overwritten the file /usr/bin/dp already owned by  mail-client/nmh

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install nmh
2. install speech-tools

Actual Results:  
The package was not installed.

Expected Results:  
To have both applications installed on my box.

[Comment 1 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2010-10-19 12:57:51 UTC]

*** Bug 341745 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2010-10-28 17:18:28 UTC]

I wonder if it would be ok to have a mutual blocker between these two packages

[Comment 3 Christopher Brannon (RETIRED) 2010-12-15 20:33:14 UTC]

These packages conflict because of the /usr/bin/dp program.
In the nmh package, dp is just a helper.  It is usually
invoked by other programs, not directly by users.
By default, nmh installs these helpers in libdir, ($prefix/lib/nmh).
However, the nmh ebuild sets libdir to bindir, so that the supporting
utilities are placed in /usr/bin.
I'd suggest changing this in the nmh ebuild, if possible.

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2010-12-29 11:18:08 UTC]

Fixed