On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:15:24AM -0400, dorqus wrote:
> Benjamin Collins wrote...
> > I recently upgraded to the latest snapshot and was in the process of
> > upgrading all the packages I had installed, and when I tried to install
> > packages that depend on expat, the install of expat failed with this:
> > 
> > Can't install expat-2.0.0 because of conflicts (.libs-expat-1.95.6p1)
> > 
> > I tried building from ports and got the same result.
> 
> rm -r /var/db/pkg/.libs-expat-1.95.6p1
> 
> rebuild your new port.
> 
Don't do that!!!!

Any package installed can be deleted...

if you have conflicts with .libs-expat, it means you already updated expat,
so you can usually just pkg_delete .libs-expat, as nothing will depend on
it any longer.

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