Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:16:56 -0500 From: "Matt LaPlante" <laplante@cat.rpi.edu> To: "'Pat Maddox'" <pergesu@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Cleaning Out Ports? Message-ID: <200502010216.j112Gwll028376@smtp4.server.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <810a540e05013117544b00fac2@mail.gmail.com>
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Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would "emerge --depclean" which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later? -- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 laplante@cat.rpi.edu www.cat.rpi.edu > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Maddox [mailto:pergesu@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM > To: Matt LaPlante > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? > > If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll > let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete > the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to > delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r > flag. > > Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. > > I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :)
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