From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 12:51:29 2003 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 55F7716A4CF for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:51:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9EBC243D31 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:51:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: (qmail 36854 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Dec 2003 20:51:23 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:51:23 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: John Wilson Message-ID: <20031219205123.GA36830@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: John Wilson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Different versions of ports... 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: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:51:29 -0000 On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:34:25PM -0500, John Wilson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I've recently started playing around with X and various desktop managers. > There is one point that seems a little troublesome however... after > recently browsing about the installed ports/packages on my system, it > appears that different programs require different versions of one > particular package. Here is one such instance: > > glib-1.2.10_10 = up-to-date with port > glib-2.2.3 = up-to-date with port > > Is this going to cause any trouble at some later point? If so, what would > be the best way to remove the earlier version and be sure that only the > newest version remains? In that particular case there should not be any problem. As you note some programs require glib-1.x while other require glib-2.x. Both these versions of glib can be installed at the same time without any problem. This is also the case for several other programs that have multiple versions in the ports system. (Note: Not all programs can have different versions installed at the same time. E.g. it would be a bad idea to have XFree86 3.x and 4.x installed at the same time.) If you do by any mischance install two versions of the same program that cannot coexist then the best way to fix that is usually to delete both, and then install the one you want. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se