On 8 Jul 1998, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

: Often, I want to *upgrade* a package -- from one version of lesstif to 
: the next, for example. Other than doing a -f in pkg_delete, which
: feels, er, messy, is there any *clean* way to tell the package system
: to let you install the new package?
: 
: If not, I consider that to be a flaw in our current system.

"Known problem."  The -f is required because of the +REQUIRED_BY files in
/var/db/pkg.

No, I personally don't know how to fix it just yet.  :(

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)