Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:14:20 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20041212161313.05f38da0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1102874180.8276.26.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org> References: <20041212120049.9ABA516A583@hub.freebsd.org> <1102874180.8276.26.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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At 10:56 AM 12/12/2004, Paul Mather wrote: >On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> >wrote: > >> Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no >> provision >> for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend >> to use a minimal number of ports and packages, and so didn't realize >> that this was such a difficult thing until now. > >The problem with deleting a port and the ports on which it depends >cleanly is that there may be other ports depending on a dependency. So, >there needs to be some arbitration to decide what legitimately should go >and which should stay. What's needed is a way of doing "garbage collection" -- reference counts plus a way of resolving circular dependencies (which reference counts can't handle). --Brett
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