Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:20:18 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com> Cc: dsidorov@swsoft.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_delete question Message-ID: <200512280420.19564.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512281550.11717.yuanjue02@gmail.com> References: <200512281355.31738.yuanjue02@gmail.com> <200512272221.11054.ringworm01@gmail.com> <200512281550.11717.yuanjue02@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 27 December 2005 23:50, Yuan Jue wrote: > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:21, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote: > > > 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? > > > > To delete ports that none depend on try: > > > > sysutils/portmanager > > > > portmanager -slid > > thanks. it works very well :) Your welcome :) -Mike
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