From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 05:06:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBF52106564A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sdb@ssr.com) Received: from mailhost.ssr.com (mailhost.ssr.com [199.4.235.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 884088FC08 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:06:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 40888 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2011 04:37:40 -0000 Received: from pool-72-89-107-235.nycmny.east.verizon.net (HELO irelay.ssr.com) (sdb@72.89.107.235) by 199.4.235.5 with SMTP; 15 Mar 2011 04:37:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 59357 invoked by uid 103); 15 Mar 2011 04:30:10 -0000 Date: 15 Mar 2011 04:30:10 -0000 Message-ID: <20110315043010.59356.qmail@irelay.ssr.com> From: Scott Ballantyne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dealing with deprecated ports. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:06:07 -0000 I want to upgrade devel/icu. In updating tells me to use portmaster -r icu This starts to rebuild gnome2-fifth-toe which wants to rebuild straw. But straw is marked DEPRECATED and portmaster won't rebuild it. I pkg_delete doesn't want to delete it because gnome2-fifth-toe depends on it. I never know what to do in these situations. Can anyone pass me a clue? Thanks, Scott -- sdb@ssr.com