Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:55:20 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <gautam@inspired.net.au> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: exclude packages in pkgtools.conf Message-ID: <20040313095520.7ba250ef.gautam@inspired.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20040312013039.41818d6a.gautam@inspired.net.au> References: <20040312013039.41818d6a.gautam@inspired.net.au>
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 01:30:39 +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan <gautam@inspired.net.au> wrote: > I recently built KDE 3.2.1. When I uninstalled it (pkg_deinstall > -R kde-3.2.1), it took vim and xpdf with it, even though I have > been using these long before I tried KDE. I know pkg_deinstall > has--exclude, but I did not know kde would uninstall them both. > Do I have to specify --exclude manually everytime as I can't see > any way to add these ports to pkgtools.conf? If it's not there, > can it please be added (say EXCLUDE_PKGS or something)? Hope I've > not missed anything obvious... I was possibly very verbose and confusing. I'll try to restate. Can I specify that a port can be uninstalled by pkg_deinstall only if I specify the name explicitly and not as part of -R or -r? I would not like to use --exclude everytime. Thanks Gautam
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