> The problem is that there are 2 different problems, pkgviews handles
> one of them quite nicely, but either doesn't help the other at all, or
> actually makes it slightly worse.

(...)

I couldn't say better what I see as problems with pkgsrc and shared
libraries.

> What I want to do is have libfoo recompiled, and reinstalled, and then
> for everything to simply use the new one, which is the one real benefit
> of using shared libraries - it is why we use the things in the first
> place (without this, they're probably not worth the cost).

Exactly.

Bye	Pavel