> Seems like some ports depend on ghostscript8 whereas other depend on > ghostscript9. Unfortunately both ghostscript variants can't coexist on > the same system. To be specific: > > I've got ghostscript8 installed (ghostscript8-8.71_8) which is > required by a bunch of ports as per "pkg_info -Rx ghostscript8". When > running "pkgdb -F" it wants to install ghostscript9 since ImageMagick > depens on ghostscript9:
The only ports that really need ghostscript8 will have a GHOSTSCRIPT_PORT entry pointing to print/ghostscript8 (I don't think there are any such ports at this time) -- otherwise they just happen to depend upon it because they were built with a non-default, user-defined WITH_GHOSTSCRIPT_VER value, or were built before the default ghostscript port was changed to print/ghostscript9. Problems like this are what the "-o" switches are for, in portmaster and portupgrade --read the manpage of the utility that you prefer, including the examples sections. Also, you should get in the habit of reading the recent additions to ports/UPDATING. If you are using portupgrade, you should probably do something like: portupgrade -o print/ghostscript9 print/ghostscript8 portupgrade -rfx ghostscript9 ghostscript b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"