> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Glass > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:24 > To: Lowell Gilbert; Chuck Swiger > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box > <snip> > it's refusing to delete things due to dependency > issues. I'm not sure, but I'll bet that the dependencies here aren't > a clean, hierarchical tree but rather more of a "web". If there's > a circular dependency, he's stuck. As far as I know, there is nothing as such called cyclic dependendancy. Please correct me if I am wrong. Regarding uninstalling the ports, you can always use the -f option which would force pkg_delete to clean up the ports without checking the dependency tree. > > Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no provision > for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend > to use a minimal number of ports and packages, and so didn't realize > that this was such a difficult thing until now. > > --Brett You can create a script/binary which looks up the B-Deps and R-Deps from the INDEX.db in /usr/ports and supply the port names to pkg_delete which would in turn clean things up. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India
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