Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:44:22 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions ML <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: commandline to remove a package and its dependencies Message-ID: <20070626204422.69bdbcba@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1182844376.9138.31.camel@joe.realss.com> References: <1182844376.9138.31.camel@joe.realss.com>
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0800
Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com> wrote:
> From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>
> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
> Subject: commandline to remove a package and its dependencies
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0800
> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2
> Organization: Real Softservice
>
> Dear list
>
> Stupid question again. Is there a commandline tool that I can use to
> remove a package 'wmaker', and then it will prompt me if I wish to
> remove packages that was required only by 'wmaker' and after wmaker is
> removed, become required by no other packages. Such packages existed
> only for 'wmaker' is very likely should be removed together with wmaker.
Hi Zhang,
you basically want to remove "leaves" from the package tree - install
pkg_cutleaves from ports :
pkg_cutleaves-20061113 Interactive script for deinstalling 'leaf' packages
I suggest you run it interactively, as well as creating a file with exclusions
(there are some leaves that you want to keep of course). I run it as :
[betom@ayiin] [Tue Jun 26 20:43:55 2007]
/usr/home/betom
$ cat bin/show_pkg_leaves.sh
#!/bin/sh
pkg_cutleaves -xcl
HIH,
Beto
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