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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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