Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:30:52 +0100 From: Philip Lykke Carlsen <plcplc@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Basic Port Management.Is there any? Message-ID: <200510311130.52687.plcplc@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAAwDSDOzhsU2rBtGtW4YaQsKAAAAQAAAAp9%2By%2BACJ50CohQZ7IKYCDAEAAAAA@gmail.com> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAAwDSDOzhsU2rBtGtW4YaQsKAAAAQAAAAp9%2By%2BACJ50CohQZ7IKYCDAEAAAAA@gmail.com>
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Monday 31 October 2005 10:00 skrev George Katsanos: > Hello ! , > > > As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X > environment and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff. > Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers. > > So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy if some > screenshots could be added to the freebsd.org/ports database] I'm making > install the port to check it out. Some times , I decided that I don't like > it . So my first though is to get rid of it , cause I don't want ''trash'' > on my system. > I'm making deinstall [or pkg_delete] to remove it. Everything ok so far , > but what about the one zillion dependant pkg's the app made? > You can say , do a pkg_delete -r . Yes but this will may delete also pkgs > that are Needed by other ports/apps.. > > > Is there any good plan solution for this ?... well.. if you issue a `pkg_info -r pkg_name` command you will see all the packages that the package pkg_name depends on.. As for ports' management I'd recommend installing sysutils/portupgrade some people like sysutils/portmanager better though.. but I can't really say I'm familliar with that though.. the portupgrade port is a set of utilities to help you manage your installed ports.. it's got pkg_deinstall which seems to have what you seek pkg_deinstall -R would deinstall a package's dependencies as well
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