Unable to install dosbox because of conflict with mplayer?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 3, 2009, at 14:25, Tim Visher wrote:

> I was able to work around this by first uninstalling mplayer and
> speex, then installing dosbox, then installing mplayer without sdl.  I
> have no idea how to tell a port that I have an acceptable package
> already installed.

Bryan explained how in the preceding message in this thread:


On Dec 20, 2008, at 15:00, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> As a dependency, the best way to deal with this would be to update the
> libsdl_sound port (which is what wants speex) to also allow speex- 
> devel by
> using a path:some/file/speex/installs:speex so it can make use of an
> already-installed speex-devel.  Someone who knows more about  
> libsdl_sound
> and speex would need to determine if this is in fact feasible.
>