On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 11:40:09PM -0400, Alan Corey wrote: > I'm not sure how to look this up, and it doesn't seem to be in the FAQ.
There does not seem to be a question in your message... > I frequently add stuff that isn't in ports by building from sources. > Sometimes this real world stuff needs newer versions of other things > than what's in ports. But the port is already installed and has > things depending on it. So I have to uninstall the dependencies, > uninstall the port, then install the newer version. Sometimes I can > take the distfile from the uninstalled dependency and build it as a > generic tarball outside the ports system, sometimes it has too many > patches to make it worthwhile. sometimes there is an update in the works. sometimes some of those pesky other ports have to be fixed as well. It can get complicated. > For example: I've just gotten fldigi running under 5.0 and 5.2, but > the fltk 1.x in ports is too old to work. I had to uninstall it, > which meant aqsis had to be uninstalled. Turns out there's a newer > aqsis too but I haven't started on that yet. > > I'm not in a position to make updated ports because I don't run current. Why not ? I mean you say you have a 5.0 installation and a 5.2 one. That sounds complicated enough already. So why not have a -current install ? it's not harder than 5.0/5.2. (besides 5.0 is no longer supported, so you'll have to update that one anyways).
