Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:51:58 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: Marko Turk <markoml@markoturk.info> Cc: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg delete --no-recursive Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBvgZ61QMtnCT7eoBwGgB%2BpoTZr0vhyO-=axntCCvM3Og=A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150313084213.GA39602@vps.markoturk.info> References: <wu7vbi5e201.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <20150313084213.GA39602@vps.markoturk.info>
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Marco, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Marko Turk <markoml@markoturk.info> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:27:10PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How to tell pkg delete to remove only *this* package and not all the >> ones that depends on it. >> >> There is a --recursive option, but it is applied by default and I don't >> see how to disable it. >> >> My goal is to remove perl5.14 in order to install perl5.20. All other >> packages that depend on perl5.14 will be rebuild afterward, so the >> dependecy will be updated accordingly. >> >> But in no case I want to delete all packages depending on perl, I *do* >> need them. >> > > Hi, > > -f, --force > Forces packages to be removed despite leaving unresolved > dependencies. thank you, that is really a *bad* choice of name for the option: it does what I need, but it certainly not mean what it does! Best regards, olivier
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