mesa libs issue

[bob prohaska]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:57:28PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:31 PM, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:33:28AM +0000, Tatsuki Makino wrote:
> > >
> > > Probably, pkg set -[no] cannot combine records of multiple packages
> > (libglapi, libGL, gbm, libEGL and libglesv2) into one (mesa-libs).
> > > It means that pkg delete is mandatory.
> > > After deleting, the dependency needs to be reconnected by something.
> >
> > In playing a little with deleting libEGL it appears to demolish much
> > of the GUI infrastructure, deleting something like 4G of applications
> > and libraries. At that declaration I hesitated, and hit n. 8-)
> >
> > If it's really the only way to update the system please indicate so,
> > and I'll give it a try. I'm on RPI2, running -current.
> >
> 
> Do NOT 'pkg delete libEGL" or and of the others! You need to "pkg delete -f
> libEGL". If you don't use '-f' when deleting a port, all ports dependent on
> that port will also be deleted, as you saw. '-f' will force deletion of the
> port WITHOUT touching anything else.

Ok, thank you very much! When I saw the -f, I mistakenly surmised it
meant something like "force".

bob prohaska