Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:10:54 +0800 From: Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dsidorov@swsoft.com Subject: Re: pkg_delete question Message-ID: <200512281410.55365.yuanjue02@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1135749614.526.1.camel@sidorov.plesk.ru> References: <200512281355.31738.yuanjue02@gmail.com> <1135749614.526.1.camel@sidorov.plesk.ru>
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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? -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue
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