Can't install octave packages with octave-devel installed

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 23, 2011, at 11:29, mark brethen wrote:

> There is a conflict when trying to install octave packages (e.g. octave-general) if octave-devel is installed.
> 
> Mark-Brethens-MacBook-Pro:group marbre$ sudo port -v install octave-generalPassword:
> --->  Computing dependencies for octave-general..Error: Unable to execute port: Can't install octave because conflicting ports are installed: octave-devel
> 
> I can understand why you should not be able to install octave if octave-devel is already installed, but the packages will work with either version. Can the 'conflicts' keyword be suppressed?

Then all ports that use octave need to rewrite their octave dependency such that either octave or octave-devel can satisfy it. See ticket #14540.