From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 15 05:52:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED62C16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD58643D46 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 05:52:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben.kelly@ieee.org) Received: (qmail 12004 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2004 13:52:22 -0000 Received: from vadev.org (HELO [192.168.1.101]) (desdicardo@[66.92.166.151]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with RC4-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 15 Mar 2004 13:52:22 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20040315140947.17bbe512.manlix@demonized.net> References: <20040315134745.1eb201f4.manlix@demonized.net> <20040315125825.GJ52357@bombur.guldan.demon.nl> <20040315140947.17bbe512.manlix@demonized.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ben Kelly Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:52:21 -0500 To: Johan Pettersson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) cc: Robert Blacquiere cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pkg-based base system. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:52:23 -0000 >> /me smells linux based distros... >> >> I would not like that. It is now a complete system all acts like it >> should. >> If you take it appart you will see thing breaking and getting a mess >> like >> i won't say it. > > If you want to remove something why shouldn't you be able to do it > easily? If you want to remove something you can use rm(1) but its much > simpler och easier with pkg_delete. And you know what you have and > don't have with pkg_info or ls /var/db/pkg/ If removal is all you are looking for, how about adding a make target to deinstall units that have their NO_ variable set? - Ben