x11-toolkits/gtk20

qsecofr

qsecofr

Hi,

The directions in /usr/ports/UPDATING recommend
Code: 
# pkg_delete -f gtkmm-2.20\* gtk-2.20\*
# portmaster -a

That seems overkill to me. My desktop is KDE4, though I happen to run a few applications which require some gtk libraries. Could I instead
Code: 
# pkg_delete -f gtkmm-2.20\* gtk-2.20\*
# cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 && make install clean
? Would that suffice?

I just have a hard time believing
Code: 
portmaster -a
is justified for upgrading most any port. It's not really fair of me to accuse the port maintainer of being lazy. This is afterall high season on South Beach, and I could understand if Vanilla I. Shu has other things on his mind mind, baby...
 
I don't know what you think [cmd=]portmaster -a[/cmd] actually does. It does not rebuild all of your installed ports, only the ones that have a newer version available. This may include ports that had their versions bumped because of the need to rebuild against the new GTK. Run [cmd=]pkg_version -vL=[/cmd] to find out which ports will actually be rebuilt when running [cmd=]portmaster -a[/cmd] If you think there are way too much, by all means pick and choose, but beware of problems down the road. Installed ports work best when 'relative versions' (versions of ports needed by versions of other ports) are in agreement.
 
This is probably solved. I did
Code: 
# pkg_delete -f gtk-2.20\*
# cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 && make install clean
# portmaster -x openoffice.org -R r gtk-2.2\*

I'm not positive all the dependent lib* ports got updated, but nothing so far is obviously broken.. (I've not yet used any ooo apps)
 
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