From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 08:06:40 2004 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 5608516A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF90B43D39 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:06:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i3JF6MIq012111; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:06:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:06:22 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Ziller, James" Message-ID: <20040419150622.GA3393@dan.emsphone.com> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Dependency hell 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, 19 Apr 2004 15:06:40 -0000 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