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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:30:54 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, knu@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: portupgrade weirdness?
Message-ID:  <20020111093054.E7984@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C3EEEF4.3050007@owt.com>; from kstewart@owt.com on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:56:04AM -0800
References:  <20020111042746.D7984@elvis.mu.org> <3C3EEEF4.3050007@owt.com>

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* Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> [020111 05:56] wrote:
> 
> 
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > Checking the origin of ghostscript-6.01_1
> > Stale origin: 'print/ghostscript'
> > Guessing... no idea.
> > New origin? (? to help): print/ghostscript6
> > ghostscript6        ghostscript6-nox11
> > New origin? (? to help): print/ghostscript6
> > ghostscript6        ghostscript6-nox11
> > New origin? (? to help): print/ghostscript6
> > print/ghostscript6: Not found.  Force it? [no]
> > 
> > uhhh... HELP! :)
> 
> 
> The one you want is
> 
> Port:   ghostscript-gnu-6.52
> Path:   /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu
> Info:   GNU Postscript interpreter
> Maint:  ports@FreeBSD.org
> Index:  print
> B-deps: XFree86-3.3.6_10 gettext-0.10.35 gmake-3.79.1 jpeg-6b_1 png-1.2.1
> R-deps: XFree86-3.3.6_10 png-1.2.1

Yes, but I think it would be better if it was:
print/ghostscript6: Not found.  Force it? Install it? [fi]

or something, sure I _want_ ghostscript-gnu-6.52, but portupgrade
isn't telling me to install it, it's telling me to point at it.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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