Jasper, Thanks for your reply...
> And my attempt to remove that old library: with what commad are you removing that old library? obviously not pkg_delete. that would solve the problem actually... I was just attempting to rm the main one. Reading through the the pkg_delete man page, I cannot find a way to delete the glib2 package without also deleting all of its dependencies. If you know some way to do this, I am all ears. Nonetheless, shouldn't a ports update go through smoothly without breaking? This seems like a problem with the port assuming a clean system. Aaron Hsu