Hi All! This is under 6.1 on an ancient Dell box.
Three related issues. 1) packages arduino and avrdude shouldn't be so tightly connected/dependent. 2) (y/N/a). 3) I hesitate to use -D to force removal of a package. I recently installed the arduino package, and I'm 99% sure that I manually installed the avrdude package after that because I knew I wanted and needed it. Meaning I don't -think- that installing arduino automatically installed avrdude. Having issues with avrdude, I'd like to uninstall it and get the current version from gnu.org. I'd prefer to not have a pkg and a non-pkg based-version of the same software installed, to avoid them stepping on each others toes. pkg_delete avrdude replied with 'CAN'T (my emphasis) delete avrdude without deleting arduino. Wanna delete them as well? (y/N/a).' Issue 1, there's no reason they should be dependent on each other in either direction. One can use arduino-the-compiler, and a different burner. Or one can use avrdude-the-burner without having used the arduino compiler. (Or any compiler for that matter. All avrdude needs is the file to be burnt.) Now I see that pkg_info -R arduino does not return any packages, and -R avrdude says it is required by arduino. That's not necessarily true in real life. Issue 2, I understand what (y/N) means, but I don't know what the /a option means? Issue 3, how safe is it in general to use -D? Again, arduino and avrdude are related but not necessarily joined at the hip so I -think- it should be pretty safe, but never know.... Clues? Thanks much. Have a :) day! Jim
