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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2017 09:39:34 -0700
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Tatsuki Makino <tatsuki_makino@hotmail.com>, "Herbert J. Skuhra" <herbert@mailbox.org>, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: mesa libs issue
Message-ID:  <20170516163934.GA98474@www.zefox.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vJNxBV-pYJQsqhWEP_BH09CjOWkJfkyn%2BQPn1F%2B_fNBA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20170513235410.GA56717@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> <KL1PR0601MB19924CD92FF65B7A7DB94C21FAE00@KL1PR0601MB1992.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> <inl3-t5cw-wny@FreeBSD.org> <CALeGphxD_%2BejB-9D5jLW07v3FFVESzCwSfYZmYUp%2BmJJv-pbkA@mail.gmail.com> <KL1PR0601MB199215814F14E4483E8108EEFAE60@KL1PR0601MB1992.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com> <20170516023132.GA95995@www.zefox.net> <CAN6yY1vJNxBV-pYJQsqhWEP_BH09CjOWkJfkyn%2BQPn1F%2B_fNBA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:57:28PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:31 PM, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:33:28AM +0000, Tatsuki Makino wrote:
> > >
> > > Probably, pkg set -[no] cannot combine records of multiple packages
> > (libglapi, libGL, gbm, libEGL and libglesv2) into one (mesa-libs).
> > > It means that pkg delete is mandatory.
> > > After deleting, the dependency needs to be reconnected by something.
> >
> > In playing a little with deleting libEGL it appears to demolish much
> > of the GUI infrastructure, deleting something like 4G of applications
> > and libraries. At that declaration I hesitated, and hit n. 8-)
> >
> > If it's really the only way to update the system please indicate so,
> > and I'll give it a try. I'm on RPI2, running -current.
> >
> 
> Do NOT 'pkg delete libEGL" or and of the others! You need to "pkg delete -f
> libEGL". If you don't use '-f' when deleting a port, all ports dependent on
> that port will also be deleted, as you saw. '-f' will force deletion of the
> port WITHOUT touching anything else.

Ok, thank you very much! When I saw the -f, I mistakenly surmised it
meant something like "force".

bob prohaska




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