On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 06:16:20PM -0400, Richard Thornton wrote: > So if one has a 5.3 release system running, but finds a desired package in > say 5.1, will pkg_add work on this, assuming I adjust the PKG_PATH to point > to a 5.1 package folder? Or will doing this cause other instabilities?
The dependency mechanisms in pkg_add apply to the library of the base system. Meaning that if you manage to install a package from 5.1 on a "pure" 5.3 machine, your package has *no* dependency at all on any shared library whatsoever from the base system. So, yeah, you can install the books from 5.1. And some of the fonts. That's about it.
