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Date:      Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:22:54 +0800
From:      Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
To:        Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, Marko Turk <markoml@markoturk.info>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg delete --no-recursive
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I have an existing bug report for correcting the pkg-delete man page:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194981

Whilst my patch doesn't change the wording of the -f, --force option, the
wording of that option makes more sense in the context of the man page once
it explains the default behavior is to delete packages that would be left
with unresolved dependencies.

Regards,
Ben

On Friday, March 13, 2015, Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
wrote:

> Marco,
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Marko Turk <markoml@markoturk.info
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:27:10PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> How to tell pkg delete to remove only *this* package and not all the
> >> ones that depends on it.
> >>
> >> There is a --recursive option, but it is applied by default and I don't
> >> see how to disable it.
> >>
> >> My goal is to remove perl5.14 in order to install perl5.20. All other
> >> packages that depend on perl5.14 will be rebuild afterward, so the
> >> dependecy will be updated accordingly.
> >>
> >> But in no case I want to delete all packages depending on perl, I *do*
> >> need them.
> >>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > -f, --force
> >     Forces packages to be removed despite leaving unresolved
> >     dependencies.
>
> thank you, that is really a *bad* choice of name for the option: it
> does what I need, but it certainly not mean what it does!
>
> Best regards,
>
> olivier
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