From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jan 24 18:22:44 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1687E1F79B9 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from bucksport.safeport.com (bucksport.safeport.com [198.74.231.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4846v70Z1gz4Mdr for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:22:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from bucksport.safeport.com (bucksport.safeport.com [198.74.231.101]) by bucksport.safeport.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id 00OIMaRV089776 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:22:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:22:36 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Is this just the way it is?? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (bucksport.safeport.com [198.74.231.101]); Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:22:36 -0500 (EST) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4846v70Z1gz4Mdr X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of doug@safeport.com designates 198.74.231.101 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=doug@safeport.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.94 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:198.74.231.101]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[safeport.com]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RCVD_NO_TLS_LAST(0.10)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11288, ipnet:198.74.228.0/22, country:US]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; IP_SCORE(-0.84)[ip: (-4.34), ipnet: 198.74.228.0/22(-2.17), asn: 11288(2.36), country: US(-0.05)]; ONCE_RECEIVED(0.10)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:22:44 -0000 I recently undated my laptop and desktop to 11.3. The laptop around Thanksgiving and the Desktop in January. I came across an application to replace one that was changed in the 11-rel tree with no way to convert a database without the old version. Which programs really do not matter to my question. On the desktop, the new package installed and just worked with no issues. It turns out this program can not be run on my desktop via an ssh tunnel. So I thought I would just install in on my laptop as I am 1,000+ miles away. The package installed fine again no issues. When run however the package wants Qt5.13.2 and Qt5.13.0 was installed. Again fine, just compile the program. Oops no option to accept the installed Qt and the build failed anyway. Okay no program, just upgrade Qt5. It turns out doing that will upgrade firefox thunderbird, add a 3rd version of python and upgrade about 1/3 of the 550 packages installed. So is this just the way things are? Relative to python, I'm 99% sure python36-3.6.9_1 works just as well as python36-3.6.9_3 or python37-3.7.6. I thought (hoped??) the with recent change to package/ports would result them not being this tied to sub-sub version changes. I'm just going for a yes or no. In the past you had a python 3 and 2.7 if you needed it. No so now I guess?? _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277