From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 22 03:55:37 2003 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 B1B1F16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A944D43D4C for ; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:55:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hBMBtYu25117; Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:55:34 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Dino Vliet , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:55:33 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031222111215.33537.qmail@web40106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031222111215.33537.qmail@web40106.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312220355.33754.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: freebsd ports dependancies 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: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:55:37 -0000 On Monday 22 December 2003 03:12 am, Dino Vliet wrote: > The port R-a4 requires tcl-8.4.4_1,1 and tk-8.4.4,1 > The port scilab requires tcl-8.3.5_2 and tk-8.3.5_2 > > If I install them both I will have two versions of tcl > and tk on my system. > It feels like some redundancy. > > What can I do about this? > Well, both versions of tcl and tk are separate ports for usually that kind of reason. The only other choice is to develop patches for scilab and pass them on to the maintainer. The easy out is to just install them and not worry about it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html