Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> writes: > Hi, > > Greg Troxel wrote: >>> >I found x11-links and osabi to be a great nuisance in NetBSD >>> >5.1_STABLE on my old computer. >> I find them to be a mild nuisance. Once can almost always just >> pkg_delete x11-links as it is a build dependency only, usually. And >> fairly few things depend on osabi. > That's what I did and it worked. Removed x11-links, updated osabi, > resinstalled x11-links! > > Tedious to remember that it is needed, but quick to do. the stupid > thing is that one needs to remember to update these two packages > first, before making blindly "make update" or "make replace" in any > other package. Really, when you update pkgsrc, it's only safe to rebuild things in order (but of course many other things work). That's why pkg_rr was written.
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