PKG wants to remove a lot of installed packages only to install MOZJPEG package

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 15:54:26 UTC 2014


On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:07 AM, vermaden <vermaden at interia.pl> wrote:

> I wanted to add 'mozjpeg' package, but PKG wants to remove a lot of other
> packages in that process, any explanation for that?


As a general rule, you want to upgrade all installed pkgs first because the
new package may have a dependency incompatible with the installed set;
upgrading installed packages should get you packages compatible with the
new one.

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