From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 16 18: 6:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from poo.smooch (ts99-195.dublin.indigo.ie [194.125.207.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928121523D for ; Sun, 16 May 1999 18:06:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blokey@indigo.ie) Received: (from plop@localhost) by poo.smooch (8.9.3/8.9.1) id CAA02881 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 May 1999 02:06:14 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from plop) Message-ID: <19990517020614.A2864@smooch> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 02:06:14 +0100 From: Smelly Pooh To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Ports versioning Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've noticed that whenever I install a new version of a package, the ports system leaves the old package there anyway and overwrites bits of it. This is a bit annoying, last time I brought it up I was told to pkg_delete before doing a make install. This is a bit awkward for ports with multiple dependencies (e.g. GNOME or KDE), is there any other way I could go about it? Please reply via e-mail, I'm not subscribed to this list, thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message