Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

RW list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com
Tue Sep 27 09:15:22 PDT 2005


On Tuesday 27 September 2005 16:21, Milscvaer wrote:
> I tried to use pkg_add to install a new program from
> stable, however, it complained about older versions of
> gtk being installed and refused to continue. Why not
> just leave the old versions of Gtk there so existing
> programs may continue to use them, and have new
> programs installed from stable use the new version?

I don't use packages much, but I think it's the case that a package won't 
install if it was built against a dependency that is newer that the one you 
have installed.

Note  GTK1  and GTK2 are separate and can co-exists, so I think you need to 
identiy which GTK port it's asking for and update it.


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