Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 07:53:31 -0500 (CDT) From: fosburgh@flash.net To: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposed pkg_delete change Message-ID: <200005081253.HAA29710@bunyip.flash.net>
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On Mon May 8 01:10:28 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> 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. > > ================================================================= > | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | > | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | > | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | > | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | > | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| > ================================================================= > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message You may want to look into pkg_remove which I believe is in the ports system. It does basically what you are looking for, although I have not used it often enough to see how it handles things like multiple levels of dependencies (though, for the record, it did delete everything depending on qt 1 when I upgraded all of my qt/kde stuff a few months ago). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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