Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:42:13 +0900 From: Akinori MUSHA aka knu <knu@idaemons.org> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com Cc: kris@hub.freebsd.org, fullermd@futuresouth.com, freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, asmodai@bart.nl, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c Message-ID: <86vh4z3i62.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:21:01 -0800" <1777.947640061@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001111708410.89967-100000@hub.freebsd.org> <1777.947640061@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Hi,
At Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:21:01 -0800,
Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote:
> I think the wider objective should be to make wildcarding work
> for all the pkg_foo tools (where it makes sense).
>
> That is to say that it should be possible to say:
>
> pkg_info '*apache*'
> pkg_delete 'emacs*'
>
> etc. And no, I don't have time to write the code which takes a regexp
> and iteratively matches it against directory components in
> /var/db/pkg, but I can certainly say that it should be easy enough to
> implement for anyone who DOES have the time. :-)
FYI, Sada-san (one of the committers) wrote a nice package
remover named `pkg_remove' which port was posted as ports/16025 (not
imported yet). It will do more than expected above, like it removes
not only the packages targeted by a regexp, but also the packages
which depends on the ones to be removed recursively. Try it out and
get it in!
I hope its powerful functionality would be integrated into
pkg_delete (-r option or something), since it's somewhat confusing
that both pkg_delete and pkg_remove co-exist.
--
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