On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> wrote: > When I ran "pkg_info | grep -i kde" I see what seems to be an older, > unused version of KDE and its libraries. Should I pkg_del any of > these, or pkg_del them all and install KDE cleanly? k-Thanks k-indly. You might get a better answer on some FreeBSD-specific forum, e.g. ports@freebsd.org (I do remember correctly that you're running FreeBSD?). My general advice would be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". The problems are interlaced dependencies: X1 requires version n of Y, but X2 requires X3 which in turn requires version n-1 of Y. And often when I pkg_delete an old version it takes out some of the files that belong to the new version. So I hesitate to pkg_add things that I'm not sure I want, and that have a lot of dependencies, and every year or so I take some time and remove everything, and only re-pkg_add the things I know I want. -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html
