>>>>> On Sat, 11 Apr 2020, Marek Szuba wrote:

> I have tried doing this in pkg_preinst but alas, I have found out
> collision checks are performed before that function is invoked. I have
> also tried setting COLLISION_IGNORE in the replacing package but it
> seems that variable only works in make.conf and make.defaults - in which
> case it's simpler to simply tell the users to delete those symlinks.

A possible (but somewhat hackish) approach would be to move the files to
a different name in src_install, and move them back to their original
name in pkg_preinst.

Ulrich

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