Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:54:11 -0500 From: Matt <datahead4@gmail.com> To: Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Effing HAL Message-ID: <cd6b4a5b0910291654xe326e8cjc5e5aa9ba8db4010@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <eeef1a4c0910291615x288a8a2nacdd335fb0dca410@mail.gmail.com> References: <eeef1a4c0910291455y6cee991md9f8c7f2824e54ca@mail.gmail.com> <BA9912258E343B9627BA075A@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <eeef1a4c0910291615x288a8a2nacdd335fb0dca410@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Freminlins <freminlins@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/10/29 Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> > > The whole Xorg thing, at least on FreeBSD, is just a minefield. I like to > remove unnecessary packages, to save space for when I do backups. I don't > have an Nvidia card on this box so: > > pkg_delete xf86-video-nv-2.1.13 > pkg_delete: package 'xf86-video-nv-2.1.13' is required by these other > packages > and may not be deinstalled: > xorg-drivers-7.4_1 ^^^^^^^^^^ > xorg-7.4_1 ^^^^^^^^^^ > > Great. So what is the point in having a separate package if I can't remove > that damn thing? I know I can pkg_delete -f, but why make it hard? The xorg and xorg-drivers ports are meta ports meant to make it easier to just install _everything_ related to those two items. They don't actually install anything themselves. You can safely delete those two ports and then the xf86-video-nv port will not complain about being required by other ports. Matt
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