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Subject: Recursively Deinstalling and Upgrading Packages/Ports without Breaking
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Hi,

With portupgrade, I used to use "pkg_deinstall -R" to deinstall a
package and its dependencies while preserving the packages on which
other packages were depending on. With pkgng, the behaviour of
"pkg_deinstall -R" changed and this command is now breaking
dependencies. Is there a new method to safely remove packages recursively?

Also, in the past, it used to be possible to use a "portupgrade -NRra"
command to upgrade all packages and install new dependencies as
required, but the "-N" option is no longer supported in this context and
portupgrade seems unable to automatically install new dependencies. Is
there an alternate method to achieve this?

It seems much more human time consuming to deinstall and upgrade
packages since these two functionalities disappeared from portupgrade...

Thanks!