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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:40:35 +0100 (BST)
From:      "Dominic Marks" <dom@helenmarks.co.uk>
To:        rodrigo@liralink.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, 'Dominic Marks' <dom@helenmarks.co.uk>, 'Vladislav Storojenco' <smainv@yahoo.com>
Subject:   RE: deinstall ports
Message-ID:  <56344.195.12.22.194.1182242435.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk>
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Rodrigo Galiano wrote:
> No, if you make 'deinstall' under a specific port it will only uninstall
> the
> software package with the dependencies. If you want to deinstall
> dependencies do the command 'make clean' to check out what will be
> actually
> installed and diff the output with the results obtained with the
> 'pkg_info'
> command. Then finally do the command 'pkg_delete #package_name#' to
> deinstall the dependencies.

I believe the original question was if removing a package would by default
removes the dependencies of the package too, to which the answer is no.  I
don't think the intention of the original poster was to attempt to
actually deinstall the dependencies.

Perhaps I misread the original post.

Dominic




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