Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 06:39:36 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: proposed pkg_delete change Message-ID: <20000508063936.E64839@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005080207430.15355-100000@rac10.wam.umd.edu>; from culverk@wam.umd.edu on Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:10:28AM -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0005080207430.15355-100000@rac10.wam.umd.edu>
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On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 02:10:28AM -0400, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > I have a suggestion for pkg_delete: Very often when I'm deleting a package > (such as kde, after testing the port) I want to delete that package, and > all it's dependancies; instead of going around looking for the > dependancies, I think it would be a nice idea to add an option to > pkg_delete to automatically delete all dependancies that aren't currently > used by anything else. If nobody is interested in doing this, I can do it > when I have some spare time (finals here at school). And then submit > patches. That would have saved me a *lot* of time about a month ago when I went and weeded out all of my packages when my /usr filled up. I basically did what you are proposing by hand and it took forever. e.g. pkg_delete some_package - oops, it depends on pkg_xxx, delete that, oops, it depends on pkg_xxx2, and so on, when in reality that only reason any of those additional packages were installed were for the original package. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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