Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 20:36:17 -0800 (PST) From: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> To: Jason Trickett <jstrickett@cogeco.ca>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to start over with respect to ports Message-ID: <20050119043617.93833.qmail@web53602.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <41EDE025.3040006@cogeco.ca>
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--- Jason Trickett <jstrickett@cogeco.ca> wrote: > Won't this get rid of binary packages too? I want to keep my gnome > system et al. - I just want to get rid of any port(s) that I ended up > compiling/installing. Eh... it's a feature, not a bug :) Seriously... you're up against one of the nice things about the ports system. Whether you install as a port you compile yourself, or a pre-compiled package... either way, it gets registered in your list of installed packages the same way and is treated and dealt-with the same from there on in. There is no distinction. You can delete /usr/ports if you don't want all the stub files anymore (necessary to install as a port), or you can use portsclean -CDD to clean up leftovers from the compile process. You can also remove the contents of /usr/ports/distfiles to remove all the downloaded sources. But installed is installed, whether it be from packages or ports. I'm sure if I have something wrong here, someone will correct me shortly. My own questions show how green I am. :) Just trying to help somewhere where I THINK I can.
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