Low Kian Seong wrote: > The problem about the -R option is that normally that takes off stuff > like xorg-server and friends too ! Really not nice, or am I doing > something wrong ? > > On 4/20/06, *Patrick Bowen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Low Kian Seong wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >Been digging around but never really found the answer to this > one, say if i > >install xfce4 package and then later I want to uninstall xfce4 > and *all* > >it's dependencies, how do i do it ? > > > >Thank you all in advance. > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > > > > > > > > Seong; > > I do that fairly often when I'm just looking at packages. Try > "pkg_deinstall -R package-name", where package-name is replaced > with the > name of the package you want to delete, in your case xfce4. > > pkg_deinstall -R xfce4. > > Patrick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" > >
If the dependancy pkg is required by something else, then pkg_deinstall will tell me that it can't delete the dependancy pkg because its used by another pkg. Works like a charm. Patrick -- Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
