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Date:      Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:47:51 +0100
From:      Philip Lykke Carlsen <plcplc@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portssystem stale dependencies
Message-ID:  <200511201247.52226.plcplc@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200511200218.37151.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
References:  <200511191137.45598.plcplc@gmail.com> <200511200218.37151.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>

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Sunday 20 November 2005 03:18 skrev RW:
> On Saturday 19 November 2005 10:37, Philip Lykke Carlsen wrote:
> > .. does anyone know why the problem of stale dependencies in the package
> > system occurs?.. it's just.. the system won't let you install any given
> > port/package without having met all the dependencies..
>
> That's not entirely true, it's really only portupgrade and it's associated
> tools that have a serious problem with stale dependencies. Portmanager is
> much more forgiving, as is direct "make install"  installation.

Well, then I think that I'll give portmanager a try.. thanks :-)



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