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Date:      11 Sep 2002 14:01:59 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gal vs gal2
Message-ID:  <1031767320.329.71.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1031766974.61931.26.camel@martin.kleinerdrache.org>
References:  <1031764928.61931.23.camel@martin.kleinerdrache.org>  <1031765417.329.62.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>  <1031766974.61931.26.camel@martin.kleinerdrache.org>

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On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 13:56, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Am Mi, 2002-09-11 um 19.30 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> > On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 13:22, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Whats up with the gal2 port?
> > > 
> > > Can I do a 
> > > 
> > > pkg_delete -f gal-xxxx
> > > portinstall gal2
> > > 
> > > And everything works fine?
> > 
> > No!  gal and gal2 are like gnomevfs and gnomevfs2.  They are completely
> > incompatible.  gal2 is being added for use with the upcoming Gnumeric2
> > port.  When it's all said and done, you'll probably want to have both
> > versions installed.
> 
> Oh, so thank you...  So I don't have to install that, some day it will
> be a dependency of any programm I'll install.

Right.  In general, you don't have to install any library port/package
unless another port/package depends on it.  If you remove gal now,
you'll most likely break things (like Gnumeric and Evolution).

Joe

> 
> Martin
> 
> 
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