Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 22:21:10 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com>, dsidorov@swsoft.com Subject: Re: pkg_delete question Message-ID: <200512272221.11054.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200512281410.55365.yuanjue02@gmail.com> References: <200512281355.31738.yuanjue02@gmail.com> <1135749614.526.1.camel@sidorov.plesk.ru> <200512281410.55365.yuanjue02@gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote: > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote: > > > hello, all > > > > > > I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I use > > > portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been installed > > > too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by any other > > > packages. > > > > > > how can I do it? can I "pkg_delete -r xxx"? > > > > > > thanks. > > > > yes you can, > > ls -al /var/db/pkg > > find your package name, and execute: > > pkg_delete -r package_name > > thanks for your reply. > but doesn't "pkg_delete -r xxx" use to delete all packages > that depend on the xxx? what I wanna delete are those packages > that xxx depend on. any ideas? To delete ports that none depend on try: sysutils/portmanager portmanager -slid -Mike
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