From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 22 22:57:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D66F16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:57:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B548C43D53 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:57:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i5MMvBUC085096; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:57:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:57:11 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ben Paley Message-ID: <20040622225710.GB51531@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200406222350.19588.ben@spooty.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406222350.19588.ben@spooty.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: "freebsd -questions@" Subject: Re: three libtools - portupgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 22:57:12 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 22), Ben Paley said: > I've got three versions of libtool on my system: > > bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool > libtool-1.3.5_2 Generic shared library support script (version 1.3) > libtool-1.4.3_2 Generic shared library support script > libtool-1.5 Generic shared library support script > bash-2.05b$ > > Does it need to be like that? or can I safely do something like They are all independent ports and don't conflict. Ideally all ports would require 1.5. You can safely delete 1.3 and 1.4, and if you install a port that depends on one of the older versions, it'll just reinstall it. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com