From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 7 01:38:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179FC16A41F for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:38:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard.cinema@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9775044306 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2005 01:38:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from richard.cinema@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i22so834127wra for ; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:38:48 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=h/lS+pzGPN8c5RAgshbW559xFn0BiXms/OazzMZXOrGCkmEGeD98EXS4ZSb27N+E4A6LaImFpe6FeVBzHVPY59F4cJZg6V4QI+GofRYhNHVsPjqVMpIfcZIx3mekMzl1a+BQgH0oBu/ycpSoQdQQfgk43YgewJACxXyj9Ig8pWE= Received: by 10.54.36.43 with SMTP id j43mr3749555wrj; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.32.55 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 18:38:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <147fc4b905080618384ebabe02@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:38:48 +1200 From: richard cinema To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200508062143.23543.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <147fc4b905080607385f50ead@mail.gmail.com> <200508062143.23543.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: how to deinstall the gnome2-lite port from my system completely? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:38:49 -0000 firstly, thanks you very much. i just found a another way in gnome2-faq-freebsd. by using"# pkgdb -F # pkg_delete -rf pkgconfig\* # cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite # make clean # make install clean " then it delete all the deps and also the xorgs(oh...). i shouldn't do that until i see your reply :D anyhow, now is compiling the stuff again.hope everything works well. On 8/7/05, RW wrote: > On Saturday 06 August 2005 15:38, richard cinema wrote: > > at first, i try to do a " make deinstall" under > > /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite . no error occured > > except i found all the gnome stuff stay there when i run "pkg_info" > > then. it seems the port did nothing with my "make deinstall" > > command. >=20 > gnome2-lite is a meta-port, it consists of nothing but dependencies, and > deinstalling a port does not delete dependencies. >=20 > > anybody can help me to figure out a proper solution to this problem? > > > > btw: i know a "silly and slow" way: use "pkg_delete -f " to delete all > > the gnome2 and gtk2 packages manually. well, it make me feel like a > > type machine:) >=20 > A number of those ports will actually be needed by non-gnome ports anyway= . >=20 > You can reinstall gnome2-lite and run >=20 > pkg_deinstall -Ri gnome2-lite >=20 > this will interactively delete the metaport and it's dependencies. If yo= u > choose to delete a dependency that is still required it will just fail t= o > delete. >=20 > sysutils/pkg_cutleaves is another way of handling this, and doing a gener= al > clean-up > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >