Quoting Brian de Alwis (10-May-01 19:40:38):

> Georges asked for advice on how to upgrade a package that is a
> prerequisite, without recompiling/reinstalling the world.

Yes, that was it.

> As it's a
> question I've been meaning to ask too, and not having seen any
> satisfactory responses (did this move to tech-pkg?), I don't want to
> see it die.

Thanks.

> Rearranging Jeremy C. Reed's e-mail:

>> I may misunderstand your statement above. Can you show us some
>> actual example(s)?

> So consider esound. I have esound 0.2.20 installed, but would like
> to upgrade to esound 0.2.22:

>     $ pkg_info esound
>     Information for esound-0.2.20:

>     Comment:
>     the Enlightened sound daemon

>     Requires:
>     libaudiofile-*

>     Required by:
>     gnome-libs-1.2.8
>     control-center-1.2.2
>     xscreensaver-gnome-3.25nb1
>     gdm-2.0b4
>     gnome-users-guide-1.2
>     [...]

> Doing a `make update' will require recompiling about 35 different
> packages on my system. Ugh. (At least, that's my understanding;
> maybe `make update' will selectively update only those packages
> explicitly requiring esound-0.2.20?)

That's also how I understood it.

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