Re: Xorg 6.8.1
From: Daniel O'Connor (doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au)
Date: 02/26/05
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To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 01:38:33 +1030
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:35, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> No, the problem's the other way round. Every time I want to portupgrade
> something else, portupgrade also wants to upgrade Xorg. I don't want the
> latest Xorg after the horror stories I heard.
>
> That's why I'm building firefox-1.0.1 independently of the ports system, so
> that I don't have to go through the pain of upgrading Xorg (on which
> firefox depends, naturally) as well.
You can tell portupgrade and friends to ignore certain packages - ie
--exclude.
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