Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:47:57 +0100 From: Alex de Kruijff <freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl> To: Zhang Weiwu <weiwuzhang@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple&silly wish to know port dependency. Message-ID: <20031031134757.GA778@dds.nl> In-Reply-To: <3FA32C52.5040906@hotmail.com> References: <3FA32C52.5040906@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:45:22AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. When I make deinstall a port I often get the message: > port xxx depends on this port, but I'll still deinstall it anyway. > > That's really frustrating. I'd like to be able to know who depends on it > before de-installing it. Any suggestions? > > Look through the handbook I didn't find an answer. There is that a port that handels this for you. It called portupgrade and is in the sysutils directory. Pkg_deinstall package doesn't deinstall a package when its requered by another, however error do take place. (All ports become packages afther there compiled.) -- Alex Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/
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