gnome_upgrade212.sh: Why removing KDE3 during update?!?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 07:11 +0100, Raphael H. Becker wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
> i guess your GNOME update script is poaching in my installed ports, it
> even updates my KDE3!  KDE has its own way to update! 
> 
> It seems you have a terrible bug in that script and if this is not a bug
> but a feature, you should warn before proceeding. 224 ports and most of
> them don't depend on gnomelibs & Co.
> 
> What is wrong with it?

Nothing.  It removes all ports that have a run-time dependency on our
update target (devel/glib20), then reinstalls them as new.  This was the
most reliable way to do the upgrade with all the circular dependencies
and other pitfalls.  

KDE gets the glib dependency through arts.

Joe

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