Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:58:38 -0400 From: Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@cogeco.ca> To: Petre Bandac <petre.bandac@rdsnet.ro> Cc: FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: duplicate ports Message-ID: <417E580E.5060604@cogeco.ca> In-Reply-To: <20041026115319.5a8f9bf0@xxl.rdsbv.ro> References: <20041026115319.5a8f9bf0@xxl.rdsbv.ro>
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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
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