Manual pages with same name in different directories

It should not possible to install both:
Code: 
===>  mailx-0.5_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
      heirloom-mailx-12.4_7

      They install files into the same place.
      You may want to stop build with Ctrl + C.

man mailx is if you have installed mail/heirloom-mailx the right man page.
 
What is that mailx-0.5_1? I do not find it. I spoke about the systems mailx and do not want to see it substituted, also not by heilrooms mailx that I do want to have. They are in different locations and that is OK. man mailx gives the systems mailx man page and that is OK.
 
Don't thought on system mailx, sorry. You can rename (or remove) /usr/share/man/man1/mailx.1.gz. It is the same as /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz.
Code: 
ls -al /usr/share/man/man1/mail* | grep -v q
-r--r--r--  3 root  wheel  10564  9 Dez 11:30 /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz
-r--r--r--  3 root  wheel  10564  9 Dez 11:30 /usr/share/man/man1/mailx.1.gz
You can also check it, if you unzip both and make a diff, they are identically.
 
They're the same file, note the same inode number:
Code: 
dice@maelcum:~ % ls -ali /usr/share/man/man1/mail*
198197 -r--r--r--  3 root  wheel  10556 Apr 22 21:38 /usr/share/man/man1/mail.1.gz
200883 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   1527 Apr 22 21:39 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
198197 -r--r--r--  3 root  wheel  10556 Apr 22 21:38 /usr/share/man/man1/mailx.1.gz
 
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