[MacPorts] #17540: poppler conflicts with xpdf

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#17540: poppler conflicts with xpdf
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 Reporter:  gale@…          |       Owner:  ricci@…           
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  assigned          
 Priority:  Normal          |   Milestone:                    
Component:  ports           |     Version:  1.6.0             
 Keywords:  conflict        |        Port:  poppler xpdf      
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Comment(by ricci@…):

 Replying to [comment:20 gale@…]:
 > Replying to [comment:19 ryandesign@…]:
 >
 > > Marking these ports as conflicting in r72435 until you find a better
 solution.
 >
 > Please don't do that. xpdf utilities are critically important to me,
 > as are a whole bunch of important ports that depend on poppler.
 >
 > I'd rather deal with the minor inconvenience of xpdf and poppler
 > temporarily stomping on each other's files until this
 > is fixed, rather than the major project of moving from MacPorts
 > to something else. And for such a silly reason, too - a false
 > dependency.
 >
 > This is not a problem in any other distribution I know of -
 > everyone just separates out the utilities as a separate port
 > for each of xpdf and poppler, and makes those conflict with
 > each other. Then everything else can coexist happily. Is
 > there a special reason why this is so much harder in MacPorts
 > than everywhere else?

 No special reason, it just needs to get done, patches are welcome.  Both
 xpdf and poppler are marked w/ openmaintainer, so anyone can step up and
 help out with them.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/17540#comment:21>
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