Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:06:22 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Ziller, James" <James.Ziller@qg.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dependency hell Message-ID: <20040419150622.GA3393@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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In the last episode (Apr 19), Ziller, James said: > So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a > given library just because that library is updated to a slightly > newer version? :( If you want those dependant programs to use the new library, yes. It's not required though. When you upgrade a port, portupgrade sticks its old shared libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg so old binaries still run. It's up to you to manually clean it out occasionally (I just checked and mine is 400MB, with files going back to 1999 :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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