Re: pkgsrc vs. binary packages

[Neal Hogan <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost>]

>>
>> OK . . . I appreciate the response, but things are still odd. I get
>> the idea to stay within a certain build and branch and version and etc
>> . . . I just finished a clean install (i.e., started over)  of an
>> i386.5.1 set and attempted to install midori (i.e., the first package)
>> via bianry from
>> PKG_PATH="ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/5.1/i386/All"; and I
>> get
>>
>>  ". . . Can't install dependency gtk2+=2.22.1nb1
>>  . . . Can't install dependency gnome-themes-[0-9]*
>> . . .1 package addition failed"
>>
> Hey, Hogan,
> I'm a newbie of NetBSD :-)
>
> As far as I know , In the links you given above , the gtk2's
> subversion is 24.3(gtk2.24.3), gtk2.22.1 is not there,
> that maybe the root cause of the problem .
>

Ya . . . that's what's buggin' me. Why would there be package
discrepancies within a release? That is, if midori - xyz depends on
gtk2.xyz, then why is gtk2.xyz not available in the same pkg dir?