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From: Jim McGuire <jimpc@geihoma.demon.co.uk>
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yesterday, as a newbie in his dotage, i was trying to get 
packages, re cups, under freebsd 7.0...

got the message that pkg-config later than 0.22, which is 
available in packages, was needed...

please advise of any workaround....

but should not packages be internally consistent?