three libtools - portupgrade question

Ben Paley ben at spooty.net
Wed Jun 23 03:22:47 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:57, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.

Thanks a lot, I'll do that.

Cheers,
Ben


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