Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 22:34:14 -0400 From: "Maxime Romano" <verbophobe@hotmail.com> To: wrmine@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_remove pkgconfig (fwd) Message-ID: <F25UnHAaaz7EjQxzmWe000080ea@hotmail.com>
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Well...
1st: pkg_remove is degined to recursively deinstall packages, as stated in
the pkg-descr:
Unlike pkg_delete, pkg_remove removes all packages which depend to
the packages you specify, in proper order, by one command line.
2nd: Run `cat /var/db/pkg/pkgconfig*/+REQUIRED_BY`. See where it went wrong?
3rd: pkgconfig is the new generation of *-config utilities (such as
gtk-config, gnome-config) that spit out required compiler flags. Basically:
Don't remove it.
4th: Never, ever, ever deinstall a packages without checking what its use is
beforehand. You never know how essential something might be.
Cheers,
-Maxime
>From: W Ryan M <wrmine@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
>To: gnome@freebsd.org
>Subject: pkg_remove pkgconfig (fwd)
>
>Hello,
>
>I would like some feed back about the problem below. I installed the port
>from the Freebsd 4.6 install iso.
>
>Ryan M
>wrmine@sdf.lonestar.org
>SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:19:28 +0000
>From: W Ryan M <wrmine@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
>Newsgroups: mailing.freebsd.ports
>Subject: pkg_remove pkgconfig
>
>Hello,
>
>While going through the ports I installed I tried pkgconfig. no man page,
>no info. So, I pkg_remove pkgconfig and it removed mozilla,
>enlightenment, snowflake, ipfw-graph, gkrellm, imlib and all dependcies.
>ie most of the stuff I was using, which I must reinstall now.
>
>Any idea why this happened ?
>
>All my previous uses of pkg_remove did not have this effect!
>
>Ryan M
>wrmine@sdf.lonestar.org
>SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
>
>
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