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From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
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Subject: RE: KDE themes
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:32:09 -0400 
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Tony,
I don't know exactly how much it would help you in this situation, but
pkg_version is a useful utility when it works.

I have several ports (such as bash and XFree) where it never knows what
version is installed.  But it does appear to be 90% accurate.

-Chris

P.S. What's the difference between 'make install' and 'make reinstall'

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tony [SMTP:tbrock@mail.phoenix.net]
> Sent:	Monday, October 04, 1999 9:21 AM
> To:	ChrisMic@clientlogic.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject:	RE: KDE themes
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > Folks,
> > Every seems to be sidestepping the solution.  Install KDE 1.1.2, which
> is in
> > the current ports collection and that does have the theme manager.
> > 
> > -Chris
> 
> I'd like to add a little insight on installing the 1.1.2 port.  This
> actually
> applies to ALL ports if you maintain an older system.
> I've found that you can avoid many headaches if you reinstall every port
> dependancy when dealing with window managers.  It seems to me that we need
> better version control in the dependancy tree.   Just because a
> /var/db/pkg/portname says it is installed doesn't necessarily mean the
> correct
> version is really there.  Find the dependent libraries and api's in
> /usr/ports
> (graphics and x11), make deinstall and make reinstall those suckers if you
> have
> any problems.  I even went so far as to reinstall dependencies of those
> such as
> libtool and gettext just to get a few of these libraries to compile
> correctly. 
> This is on a cvsup'ed 3.3-R/ports machine and I've seen problems like this
> for a long time.
> If there is some utility to help avoid these situations I've not yet run
> across
> it.  
> 
> Tony
> 


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