On 2018-03-26, Chris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
You can save a bit of time here. To install the gtk version of ghostscript straight off, do this before installing a package which depends on it: # pkg_add ghostscript--gtk If it's already installed and you want to switch to the -gtk flavour: # pkg_add -r -D installed ghostscript--gtk Or to choose from a menu: # pkg_add -r -D installed ghostscript
