There are a few packages that you need to manually massage. auto* is a good example if you want them all. ghostscript is another. I want the gtk version, but it defaults to plain ghostscript since that dependency is called by earlier packages being installed.
ghostscript, amongst several others, is a widely used depenedency. So, if you have to do pkg_delete ghostscript to change to the ghostscript you really want, you will have to delete a ton of packages first, get the right one and then reinstall all the deleted packages. Ugh. My personal answer is to use lynx $PKG_PATH. I can then select the exact versions I want to install and do those manually by copy paste the full file names. And, well, umm, pkg_add not being able to read your mind is fine for me. It makes me actually learn things like why I might choose a particular flavor over another instead of just pushing pretty buttons and watching package names flash by. I give great thanks to the excellent work done on the ports and pkg_* tools we now have. Always new and excellent improvements as time goes by! Bye Chris Bennett
