You will always have to pick one or the other in a conflicts scenario, sometimes it’ll be harder to decide what to pick because you may have important programs that depend specifically on one of them. Ideally if there are conflicting packages, anything that depends on them will accept either but it’s possible that the conflicting packages will be different variants of a program, and that other packages that depend on them need a specific variant.

So for example you could have a situation where A and B conflict, and C depends on B but not A, and D depends on A but not B, so you’d have to decide whether you want to keep A and D or B and C. If you want both C and D then you’d have to install one via an alternate method, either flatpak or docker or a chroot or some other way that isn’t the conflicting system packages. That should be a rare scenario though and I mostly encounter it when I have an old package installed that hasn’t been updated to accept both conflicting packages so I just remove it to not deal with it.