From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 22: 1:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B589137B61B for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:01:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA23198 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:01:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-39-028059.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.59]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma023118; Fri, 23 Jun 00 00:01:15 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA07335 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:10:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:10:15 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: packages Message-ID: <20000622211015.B7111@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000622070350.81586.qmail@hotmail.com> <20000622133949.B7378@slashetc.net> <20000622112430.A231@limbo.dn.ua> <20000622191546.A9751@slashetc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000622191546.A9751@slashetc.net>; from chyrag@slashetc.net on Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:15:46PM +0530 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 07:15:46PM +0530, Chirag Kantharia wrote: > If you want to upgrade package A and it depends on B and C and D: you > will have to upgrade all of A, B, C and D. ---end quoted text--- Not entirely true. Look at tkdesk, which depends on tcl/tk. If you upgrade everything and wipe out older versions, tkdesk won't work. It depends upon older versions of tcl/tk. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message