From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 29 17:08:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC4F16A417 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:08:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (cp268254-a.landg1.lb.home.nl [213.51.103.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4897B13C45A for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:08:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from ra.egypt.nl (localhost.egypt.nl [127.0.0.1]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E543989F; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:08:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 87BB539884; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:08:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on ra.egypt.nl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL autolearn=ham version=3.2.1 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410533987B; Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46ACC980.1040806@boosten.org> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:08:16 +0200 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <46AC6EEE.8040201@boosten.org> <20070729164923.GB84095@rot26.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070729164923.GB84095@rot26.obsecurity.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000762-0, 07/29/2007), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Several version of gcc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:08:23 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:41:50PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Next to the standard gcc there seem to be two others on my system, >> installed as dependencies for other packages. >> >> These are gcc_4.1.3 and gcc_4.2.1, both with a date behind there name. >> >> Since these packages seem to be updated daily (at least once a week) and >> updating these packages take forever, this is becoming quite a burden. >> >> Is there any smart setting in /etc/make.conf that keeps my system from >> eanting to update these? > > I think portupgrade uses HOLD_PKGS, check the docs. Or you could just > delete them if they are unused, they were probably used at some point > to compile something but may be no longer required. > Kris, Thanks for your answer. I did some digging and it turned out that those two different versions of gcc were required by 4 gnustep thingies, and they were required by a program I never used (or tried just once). So I deleted all 7 and now I'm happy :-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org