> simply doing
>
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib
> rm libXaw.so.7
> ln -s /usr/pkg/lib/libneXtaw.so.14.0 libXaw.so.7
>
> works.
>
> the question is - are there any way of doing this without using links=
,
> which may confuse things when upgrading etc?

I suspect /etc/ld.so.conf can be abused to do this on ELF systems; see
ld.so.conf(5).  I'm not sure it's going to be less confusing, though.

Regards,

- H=E5vard