On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:05:22AM +0800, Michael Lee(HINET) wrote: > There is one thing that I am not sure of. I read again an article in FreeBSD > Diary > http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php > and it said that if I force it to pkg_delete a certain package that other > packages depend on, > there might be problems of broken dependencies.
Ah -- that is true, unless you immediately replace the deleted package
with an equivalent alternative as I instructed. Subsequently running
'pkgdb -Fvu' will help you fix up any remaining dependency problems.
Cheers,
Matthew
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