From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 13:58:29 2004 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 5716016A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:58:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep4.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1A243D39 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:58:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep4.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021BA4E2; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <417E580E.5060604@cogeco.ca> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:38 -0400 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petre Bandac References: <20041026115319.5a8f9bf0@xxl.rdsbv.ro> In-Reply-To: <20041026115319.5a8f9bf0@xxl.rdsbv.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD User Questions List Subject: Re: duplicate 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: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:58:29 -0000 Petre Bandac wrote: >do I really need both the old version of an port and the new one ? > > The specifics of perl have been addressed, but it's worth noting that sometimes, you do. A good example is tk; it's perfectly possible to have multiple versions of it installed because they're installed to different paths and have different names in /usr/bin, and sometimes necessary, because programs that run under one version(say, requires wish8.3) might not work under a later version(wish8.4). If the program isn't specifically referring to a version, it might need to be told which version to use; and in this case, i.e. if a program starts with #! /usr/bin/wish, the versionless command will just advise you to use one with a version. Generally, if an interpreter has two versions in the /same/ ports tree, there's a reason for it. You just might not have any software installed that requires the different versions. Software besides interpreters might have different versions in there for a different reason, and they might not get along, which you'll be told if you try to install both(either directly or as the result of installing something else). -BB