On 8 April 1999 at 11:49, John Polstra <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > Everything works fine for the initial installation. But now 3 months > later you want to upgrade to the new version. About the only reliable > way to do that is to manually track down all the dependencies, > pkg_delete every one of them, and then make install in the KDE or > gnome port. Otherwise you end up with a hodge-podge of new ports and > old dependencies, and they don't play together nicely.
Maintainers of these ports would appreciate PRs if the dependencies are broken. The ports infrastructure has the mechanisms necessary to handle these dependencies, but the port maintainer may not catch every dependency. Jacques Vidrine / [email protected] / [email protected] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
