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Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 21:52:10 -0800
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: John <warendaj@home.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Not so much a question ...
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:05:45AM -0500, John wrote:

[snip]

>     While I realize it's completely logical .. the process by which this all
> took place .. I have to ask honestly how many of us would have sifted
> through the Makefile to look for dependancies ... and then through those
> Makefile's for their dependancies ... and so on?  Especially when the
> assumption is that the program being installed is relatively minor.

  $ make all-depends-list

>     What I'd like to know is firstly, is there any clean way to back out of
> an ongoing install like this and if not, why?

If nothing has been installed, you can just stop and do a 'make
distclean' to kill all the work. If anything has been installed
recently,

  $ ls -lrt /var/db/pkg

And 'pkg_delete' the recent installs related to this port.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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