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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Brian Gruber <knightbg@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   stupid question about -rf upgrades
Message-ID:  <21458.6639.qm@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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Every once in a while (like this week with gettext) a
library with a very large number of dependencies has a
shared library version bump, and a note is placed in
UPDATING requesting that users do something like

portupgrade -rf gettext

But if I'm using portupgrade, isn't this unnecessary?
doesn't pkg_deinstall (and by extension portupgrade)
preserve old shared libraries just to avoid this? what
am i missing? why do i need to recompile half my
system?

thanks,
/b


 
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