From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 21:28:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9411A16A407 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:28:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC03C43CA8 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:27:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 7151 invoked by uid 399); 9 Dec 2006 21:28:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 2006 21:28:08 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <457B2A66.8040407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:28:06 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.freebsd.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beech Rintoul References: <200612090922.21282.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <200612090922.21282.beech@alaskaparadise.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:28:09 -0000 Beech Rintoul wrote: > I installed the complete Gnome desktop in order to test one of the ports I > maintain. I recently found out that the developer is no longer going to > upgrade or support the port, so the version in the tree is essentially > the "last" version. The port is a simple clock utility x11-clocks/wmfuzzy and > works correctly. Anyway, I now want to remove gnome from my system. The > problem I'm having is that apps rely on some of the Gnome stuff. How can I > safely remove Gnome without removing the parts that are required by other > apps? I was hoping that there is a way without doing a pkg_delete on every > gnome app and looking at the dependencies. Install sysutils/portmaster Run portmaster -s (perhaps with the -d or -D flags, see the man page) That will remove things that are no longer depended on Run portmaster -l, then remove any of the leaf or root ports that you don't plan to use again. You could do this with 'portmaster -e' to remove the port and its distfiles if you wish. That will also run 'portmaster -s' again for you. hth, Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection