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Date:      Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:10:05 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        "Michael Lee(HINET)" <kuniaki.lee@msa.hinet.net>
Cc:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject:   Re: not updating XFree86 related stuff while performing portupgrade
Message-ID:  <20031021081005.GB92274@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <008501c39780$2c73f1f0$ca00a8c0@michael>
References:  <000b01c396de$b3f9bb20$ca00a8c0@michael> <20031020081821.GD15500@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200310200156.50405.kstewart@owt.com> <005701c396ec$fdad30e0$ca00a8c0@michael> <20031020100420.GA17405@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <008501c39780$2c73f1f0$ca00a8c0@michael>

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:05:22AM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote:

> There is one thing that I am not sure of. I read again an article in Free=
BSD
> Diary
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php
> and it said that if I force it to pkg_delete a certain package that other
> packages depend on,
> there might be problems of broken dependencies.

Ah -- that is true, unless you immediately replace the deleted package
with an equivalent alternative as I instructed.  Subsequently running
'pkgdb -Fvu' will help you fix up any remaining dependency problems.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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