How did references to libc.so.7 get in my 6.3 ports?

[Vinny]

E. J. Cerejo wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:12:45 -0400 Vinny
> <vinny-mail-01+f.questions20080309 at palaceofretention.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Everyone,
>> 
>> I was trying to use portupgrade on totem and ran into a problem
>> with references for libc.so.7 failing to resolve.  I have a
>> libc.so.6, of course, seeing as libc.so.7 is for FreeBSD 7, isn't
>> it?
>> 
>> uname -a FreeBSD the.pal...ofretention.ca 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
>> 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 09:32:16 EST 2008 
>> root at the.pal...ofretention.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THE  i386
>> 
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> 
> You updated the port that put libc.so.6 in your system, you need to
> find out which port it came from and then find out which which ports
> depend on it and rebuild them also and then the problem will be
> fixed.  I use /usr/ports/sysutils/bsdadminscripts which tells me
> exactly which ports need to be rebuilt.


Hi E. J.,

Is it true that a port put libc.so.6 in my system?
I thought it was part of the base system (i.e. the world as in
buildworld).

I'm a bit (more) confused now.

Vinny