duplicate ports

[Petre Bandac]

xxl# pkg_info | grep ruby
ruby-1.6.8.2004.07.28 An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
ruby-1.8.2.p2_1     An object-oriented interpreted scripting language
ruby-bdb1-0.2.1     Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with
full featu
ruby-shim-ruby18-1.8.1.p3 A set of Ruby modules to provide Ruby 1.8
functionalities
ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2   Ruby interface to Berkeley DB revision 1.8x with
full featu
xxl# 


do I really need both the old version of an port and the new one ?

for example, if I want to portupgrade amavisd, it requires perl 5.8; can
I have 2 versions of perl at the same time ? which one will be the
"default" one ?

thanks

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Petre Bandac

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Romania Data Systems - Brasov Branch
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