three libtools - portupgrade question

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Tue Jun 22 15:57:12 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Jun 22), Ben Paley said:
> I've got three versions of libtool on my system:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ pkg_info | grep libtool
> libtool-1.3.5_2     Generic shared library support script (version 1.3)
> libtool-1.4.3_2     Generic shared library support script
> libtool-1.5         Generic shared library support script
> bash-2.05b$
> 
> Does it need to be like that? or can I safely do something like

They are all independent ports and don't conflict.  Ideally all ports
would require 1.5.  You can safely delete 1.3 and 1.4, and if you
install a port that depends on one of the older versions, it'll just
reinstall it.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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