greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

[N.J. Thomas]

* Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig at spymac.com> [2005-03-23 18:21:05 -0800]:
> Packages are built to work with the particular release specified. Once 
> ports are unfrozen, right before release, they start changing again, 
> and updating new packages for all ports for every minor version bump in 
> the tree is not viable at the moment (12000+ ports), AFAIK, nor would 
> it be in line with freezing ports before release.

Yeah, this was the one thing I didn't understand about packages. I just
assumed it would do the right thing and download the latest version.

> > now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell".
> > Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch? Is that
> > the best course of action to take at this point?
> 
> You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you if
> you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root).

That's what I ended up doing. I deleted all my packages. installed only
the ones I absolutely needed (in my case: zsh, vim, and cvsup), upgraded
ports, and then went from there.

Thank for your help.

Thomas

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