From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 4:10:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tranquility.net (ppp-port3-32.tranquility.net [206.152.119.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A62137B6CB for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ishmael@tranquility.net) Received: from localhost (ishmael@localhost) by tranquility.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA06139 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 06:13:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ishmael@tranquility.net) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 06:13:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Ishmael To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package duplications In-Reply-To: <38FA7992.9AC7CA65@rochester.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I was fiddling through my package information, and I found that I have 3 > > different versions of the TCL package installed (8.0.5, 8.1.a2, and > > 8.3.b1). I was wondering - are all three truly necessary for any > > compatability issues? Or would I be able to get rid of the first two? > > > > Also, if I *DO* try to pkg_delete the first two, I get messages declaring > > dependencies on those packages. How do I make sure that whatever is > > dependent on the first install of TCL can actually use the second (as in, > > it knows where it is?) And also, what's the safest way to force a deinstall? These 3 versions of TCL install different binaries w/different names. If you try to delete these packages and some other ports/packages have dependencies on them, they will fail because they depend on a specific version of TCL. You can possibly try hacking these ports to work a different version of TCL if you wish, but that may or may not work. Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message