On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:17:13 -0400 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking at > > http://www.freebsddiary.org/pkgdb.php > > while I run it myself. I'm finding wonderful questions like > > Stale dependency: p5-Authen-SASL-2.09 -> p5-GSSAPI-0.24 (security/p5-GSSAPI): > p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 (score:26%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] > > I must ask. How the hell am I supposed to know?? I build that as a dependency > of something that I built months ago. There's a good chance that I'll be > simply guessing at all of the answers. > > Is it really useful to run this if you can't remember? And why am I > remembering anyway? That's what a packaging system is for, isn't it? > > Mike > -- > Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It > takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite > direction." --Albert Einstein > when i come across those, i always just take the defaults. one time i tried to tell it what i thought, and i built myself into an endless loop of 'run pkgdb -F's. eventually i had to just delete a few things, reinstall a few things to correct it. ever since then, i just do what it says and hope for the best. 9 out of 10, it guesses right for me. hth, jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
