moar (better than less) conflicts with moarVM (needed for Raku)

[Kenneth Wolcott]

Hi;

  I noticed today that when trying to build moar port from source that
port stops immediately by stating the previously-known conflict with
MoarVM rather than building it first and then complaining when the
installation occurs and the conflict is readily apparent.  This is an
improvement; thanks to those who improved this.  It would be great to
have both co-exist peacefully, however.

Thanks,
Ken

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 6:53 PM Austin Ziegler <halostatue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is a known issue with no useful response from the upstream maintainer: https://github.com/walles/moar/issues/143
>
> IMO, MacPorts should either make the choice to change the `moar` pager binary to `moar-pager` or set up a conflicting package rule.
>
> As I was looking for examples of this, I noticed that the moreutils port excludes its version of parallel, which is easier to use in simple cases than GNU parallel — so that's somewhat disappointing. Maybe we can bring that back as a variant (moreutils+parallel) or a separate port (moreutils-parallel).
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> -a
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> On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 8:21 PM Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi;
>>
>> Since I have already installed raku I cannot install moar because moar
>> conflicts with moarvm required by Raku.
>>
>> Looks like "moar" (which is better than "less") needs to be renamed
>> somehow or internally there is a conflict. Trimmed error output is
>> enclosed below.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ken Wolcott
>>
>> .............
>> Error: Failed to activate moar: Image error: /opt/local/bin/moar is
>> being used by the active MoarVM port.  Please deactivate this port
>> first, or use 'port -f activate moar' to force the activation.
>>     while executing
>> "throw registry::image-error $msg"
>>     ("foreach" body line 47)
>>     invoked from within
>> "foreach file $imagefiles {
>>                 set srcfile "${extracted_dir}${file}"
>>
>>                 # To be able to install links, we test if we can lst..."
>>     invoked from within
>> "registry::write {
>>             foreach file $imagefiles {
>>                 set srcfile "${extracted_dir}${file}"
>>
>>                 # To be able to instal..."
>> Error: See /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_textproc_moar/moar/main.log
>> for details.
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