On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:32 AM, neal hogan<n...@lambdaserver.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:11:17AM -0400, Luis Useche wrote:
>> Hello Guys,
>>
>> I was wondering if there is some tool that delete the packages
>> specified along with their "deletable" dependencies. Deletable means
>> packages that pkg_add added automatically (as dependencies of the
>> installed one) and are not dependency of another package. This will
>> ensure (in most of the cases) that you don't end up with a system with
>> unnecessary packages.
>>
>> I couldn't find in pkg_delete(1) any option that implements the
>> previous semantic.
>
> I'm unclear as to why 'pkg_delete -F dependencies' doesn't do what you
want?
>
> from man pkg_delete:
>
> -F dependencies also delete the whole set of package
that depends upon the requested packages.
>
>From the "-F dependencies" option I understand that pkg_delete will
remove all the packages that depend on the listed package. For
instance, if you run: "pkg_delete -F dependencies xpdf-utils", it will
remove xpdf as well.
Luis Useche
use...@gmail.com
