On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:35:25 -0700 (PDT)
Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When I ran "pkg_info | grep -i kde" I see what seems to be an older,
> unused version of KDE and its libraries.  Should I pkg_del any of
> these, or pkg_del them all and install KDE cleanly?  k-Thanks k-indly.

You might get a better answer on some FreeBSD-specific forum, e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (I do remember correctly that you're running
FreeBSD?).

My general advice would be "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".  The
problems are interlaced dependencies:  X1 requires version n of Y, but
X2 requires X3 which in turn requires version n-1 of Y.  And often when
I pkg_delete an old version it takes out some of the files that belong
to the new version.  So I hesitate to pkg_add things that I'm not sure I
want, and that have a lot of dependencies, and every year or so I take
some time and remove everything, and only re-pkg_add the things I know I
want.

-- 
Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in
the world in 1982.  -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html
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