Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 07:19:04 +0100 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: "John" <warendaj@home.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Not so much a question ... Message-ID: <01010807190400.24837@web1.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <000501c07930$a90bfc60$4500a8c0@bens1.pa.home.com> References: <000501c07930$a90bfc60$4500a8c0@bens1.pa.home.com>
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On Monday 08 January 2001 06:05, John wrote: snip to paraphrase ... I installed something on my system and it installed shitloads of other stuff I wasn't expecting. > is there any clean way to back out of an > ongoing install like this and if not, why? pkg_delete is about as good as it gets I'm afraid. As to why, er...because it is not easy.....there are, I believe, a couple of projects looking at this, to what extent they are active,I don't know. > Secondly it might be prudent to have some sort of check on > "recursive dependencies" that might say, stop and warn you when it find's > itself having to fetch a dependancy on a dependancy. I think there is always a trade-off between convenience, simplicity and functionality. I personally think it is prudent to rtfm / rtf url before I crack on with installing something. > lot of packages were installed and it would have taken a great deal of > reading to have actually piled through and seen what exactly this would > have resulted in. lynx /usr/ports/somepackage/readme.html or /usr/ports/sysutils/pib are both quite handy for this > I don't know, perhaps it's just not very likely in the general case ... > but it sure was annoying ... and hey, it just finished ... wonder if it was > worth this :> > > -John > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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