db41, db42 and db43 are they all needed

[Herbert J. Skuhra]

Tankko <tankko at gmail.com> skrev:
> After installing 6.2 and all the ports I use on a new machine, I have:
>
> apr-db42-1.2.8_2
> db41-4.1.25_4
> db42-4.2.52_5
>
> and there is db43 out there as well, probably just waiting to be installed.
>
> db41-4.1.25_4 is used by:
> portupgrade-2.3.1,2
> ruby18-bdb-0.6.2
>
> db42-4.2.52_5 is used by:
> apr-db42-1.2.8_2
>
> Which is required by subverson (I need BDB access in subversion).
>
> Do I need all these different version of db?   I guess there is no
> huge downside to having them all installed, but it doesn't seem clean
> to my anal-retentive nature.
>
> Is there a make.conf flag that will just make them all use db42 (or
> db43)?  Is that wise?

Hi,

I have put "WITH_BDB_VER=45" to /etc/make.conf.

% pkg_info -R db45-4.5.20.0 
Information for db45-4.5.20.0:

Required by:
apr-gdbm-db45-1.2.8_2
mutt-devel-1.5.16_3
portupgrade-devel-2.3.1
ruby18-bdb45-0.6.2
subversion-1.4.4_1

- Herbert