Re: git: bcaf25a8c804 - main - Fix CONFLICTS entries of multiple ports

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 03:16:23PM +0000, Stefan E??er wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by se:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=bcaf25a8c8046b094f6b5ab5bc258333bc326ee1
> 
> commit bcaf25a8c8046b094f6b5ab5bc258333bc326ee1
> Author:     Stefan E??er <se@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2022-01-10 14:20:12 +0000
> Commit:     Stefan E??er <se@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2022-01-10 15:15:39 +0000
> 
>     Fix CONFLICTS entries of multiple ports
>     
>     There have been lots of missing CONFLICTS_INSTALL entries, either
>     because conflicting ports were added without updating existing ports,
>     due to name changes of generated packages, due to mis-understanding
>     the format and semantics of the conflicts entries, or just due to
>     typoes in package names.
>     
>     This patch is the result of a comparison of all files contained in
>     the official packages with each other. This comparison was based on
>     packages built with default options and may therefore have missed
>     further conflicts with optionally installed files.
>     
>     Where possible, version numbers in conflicts entries have been
>     generalized, some times taking advantage of the fact that a port
>     cannot conflict with itself (due to logic in bsd.port.mk that
>     supresses the pattern match result in that case).
>     
>     A few ports that set the conflicts variables depending on complex
>     conditions (e.g. port options), have been left unmodified, despite
>     probably containing outdated package names.
>     
>     These changes should only affect the installation of locally built
>     ports, not the package building with poudriere. They should give an
>     early indication of the install conflict in cases where currently
>     the pkg command aborts an installation when it detects that an
>     existing file would be overwritten,
>     
>     Approved by:    portmgr (implicit)

The devel/llvm-devel port change (truncated in the email) contains:

+CONFLICTS_INSTALL=     llvm-devel

This confuses me.  Why are we adding a self-conflict?

-- Brooks