Dependency hell

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Ziller, James" <James.Ziller at qg.com> writes:

> Making a simple symlink from libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5 will allow xterm
> to run again - but of course that's a dirty disgusting way to do things.
> From what I understood, pkgdb is the tool to fix this, but running pkgdb -F
> will not prompt me to change xterm dependencies from libexpat.so.4 to
> libexpat.so.5.

No, that's not the tool to fix it.

As /usr/ports/UPDATING would tell you, do a 
"portupgrade -fr textproc/expat2".