On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Thomas devreese wrote:

thomas> I want to install psi from the latest pkgsrc.
thomas> After a while:
thomas> ===> Installing for glu-5.0.2nb3
thomas> ===>  glu-5.0.2 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
thomas> *** If so, you may use either of:
thomas> ***  - "pkg_delete glu-5.0.2" and "make reinstall" to upgrade properly
thomas> ***  - "make update" to rebuild the package and all of its dependencies
thomas> ***  - "make replace" to replace only the package without re-linking
thomas> ***    dependencies, risking various problems.
thomas> *** Error code 1
thomas>
thomas> If I do pkg_delete glu-5.0.2, it says that it's needed by a ton of other
thomas> applications like kdebase-3.1.4.
thomas>
thomas> make update will update almost all installed programs, including kde. I'd
thomas> rather not do that to install a simple chat program.
thomas>
thomas> make replace will very likely screw a few programs dependent on it, so
thomas> that's not an alternative.
thomas>

  pkg_delete -f glu  should work.

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