Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 20:22:25 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> Cc: Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proposed pkg_delete change Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005092021500.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20000508063936.E64839@mppsystems.com>
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On Mon, 8 May 2000, Mike Pritchard wrote: > 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. I just go to /var/db/pkg and type 'pkg_delete kde*' a few times. After a while they all get deleted. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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