A user cannot currently install multimedia/banshee on the XFCE desktop, because it relies on deskutils/notification-daemon, whilst XFCE uses deskutils/xfce4-notifyd, and the ports system has registered a conflict between these two ports. https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2015-February/098109.html deskutils/xfce4-notifyd has been modified upstream such that it no longer has any overlapping files with deskutils/notification-daemon. There is no longer a file conflict, and having both installed at the same time does not break functionality of whichever is being used by the active desktop environment. For reference, a similar bug was previously fixed in the Mageia Linux project: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12480
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Created attachment 153220 [details] Patch to remove conflict between deskutils/notification-daemon and deskutils/xfce4-notifyd
I've just tested this and it seems indeed that the following 3 ports can coexist: deskutils/xfce4-notifyd deskutils/notification-daemon deskutils/xfce4-notification-daemon
Over to gnome@ for a second opinion.
A commit references this bug: Author: kwm Date: Sun Feb 22 21:01:46 UTC 2015 New revision: 379629 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/379629 Log: Update CONFLICTS. xfce4-notifyd was updated to no longer conflict with notification-daemon. There is no conflict anymore between notification-daemon and xfce4-notification-daemon Only notify-osd and xfce4-notification-daemon conflict with each other. PR: 197851 (based on) Submitted by: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Reviewed by: maintainer (ehaupt@) Changes: head/deskutils/notification-daemon/Makefile head/deskutils/xfce4-notification-daemon/Makefile head/deskutils/xfce4-notifyd/Makefile