Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned dependencies after the fact. For a parallel example, in gentoo you would "emerge --depclean" which searches the tree for any orphaned packages and removes them. So say I hadn't used the -r flag when removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later?
-- Matt LaPlante System Administrator Center for Automation Technologies RPI/CAT, CII 8015 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 276-2275 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cat.rpi.edu > -----Original Message----- > From: Pat Maddox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM > To: Matt LaPlante > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? > > If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then it'll > let you know. You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to delete > the package, despite there being any dependencies. If you want to > delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can use the -r > flag. > > Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken. > > I think that's about right. I'm a FreeBSD newbie :) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
