From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 23:09:35 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 2952A16A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:09:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdyke@azimapower.com) Received: from extgw01.msys.intellispace.net (extgw01.msys.intellispace.net [160.79.150.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4EA043D48 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 23:09:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdyke@azimapower.com) Received: from malone.intellispace.net (malone.intellispace.net [160.79.145.141]) by extgw01.msys.intellispace.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5929FC4482 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:10:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.2.45] (66.9.108.98) by malone.intellispace.net (5.1.053) id 42E0B74F003A428E for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:07:41 -0400 Message-ID: <42EEAB9B.5070307@azimapower.com> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:09:15 +0000 From: jdyke Organization: Azima Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions References: <42EE6E6A.5030108@azimapower.com> <20050801214342.GA5963@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: remove all of KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jdyke@azimapower.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:09:35 -0000 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Dick Hoogendijk writes: > > >>On 01 Aug jdyke wrote: >> >>>If i `pkg_delete kdebase` will it delete all sub packages. or do those >>>have to go one at a time? >> >>"pkg_delete kde\*" removes most if not all of kde* stuff. > > > Using "-r" should also get rid of packages that depend on the kde > stuff. You might ought to use "-rn" first, and study output. > > BTW, it seems that pkg_deinstall is meant to be used instead of > pkg_delete (outside old scripts, anyway). thanks all. don't know why i went to the list instead of man so quickly today, guess i was a little leary since its a large app with so many ties to other apps. as soon as i sent it went to man, got it all uninstalled. Think i've left some files around in the icons/graphics shared folders. I did see the piece about deinstall and actually ended up uwing that instead. Jeff >