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Date:      Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:10:54 +0800
From:      Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dsidorov@swsoft.com
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete question
Message-ID:  <200512281410.55365.yuanjue02@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1135749614.526.1.camel@sidorov.plesk.ru>
References:  <200512281355.31738.yuanjue02@gmail.com> <1135749614.526.1.camel@sidorov.plesk.ru>

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On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote:
> > hello, all
> >
> > I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use
> > portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed
> > too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other
> > packages.
> >
> > how can I do it? can I "pkg_delete -r xxx"?
> >
> > thanks.
>
> yes you can,
> ls -al /var/db/pkg
> find your package name, and execute:
> pkg_delete -r package_name

thanks for your reply.
but doesn't "pkg_delete -r xxx" use to delete all packages
that depend on the xxx? what I wanna delete are those packages
that xxx depend on. any ideas?

-- 
Best Regards.
Yuan Jue



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