Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:09:34 -0800 (PST) From: Dennis Jun <dennisjun@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Uninstalling ports COMPLETELY Message-ID: <20000312200934.25137.qmail@web611.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I'm a newbie to FreeBSD so please bare with me if this is an obvious matter. I installed a program from the ports collection but later I realised I didn't need it anymore. So did a "make deinstall". I believe that erases all the binaries. However, I noticed the amount of free space on my drive was relatively the same. Then I erased the "work" directory in the port directory and my disk space was back up to what it was before. My question is have I uninstalled everything by doing those 2 things? Coming from Windows, this was such a headache. Installing a program but then realising you didn't need it anymore so you would use "add/remove programs" in the control panel and it would erase most of the binaries installed. Yet there were always left over .dll files and registry entries. There were 3rd party apps that sort of solved this problem (e.g., Cleansweep) but often they erased too much sometimes. So, for me, I wouldn't like to try programs out because I didn't know what was happening behind the scenes: in the registry, shared .dlls, or whatever. It was incredibly annoying and frustrating because I like to keep my system "clean". So again, I just wanna know, if I have removed all traces of that program being ever on my system by doing a "make deinstall" and erasing the "work" directory in that specfic port. Thanx in advance. ===== PGP public key: http://i.am/dennisjun/ or ldap://certserver.pgp.com/ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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