On Saturday 06 August 2005 15:38, richard cinema wrote: > at first, i try to do a " make deinstall" under > /usr/ports/x11/gnome2-lite . no error occured > except i found all the gnome stuff stay there when i run "pkg_info" > then. it seems the port did nothing with my "make deinstall" > command.
gnome2-lite is a meta-port, it consists of nothing but dependencies, and deinstalling a port does not delete dependencies. > anybody can help me to figure out a proper solution to this problem? > > btw: i know a "silly and slow" way: use "pkg_delete -f " to delete all > the gnome2 and gtk2 packages manually. well, it make me feel like a > type machine:) A number of those ports will actually be needed by non-gnome ports anyway. You can reinstall gnome2-lite and run pkg_deinstall -Ri gnome2-lite this will interactively delete the metaport and it's dependencies. If you choose to delete a dependency that is still required it will just fail to delete. sysutils/pkg_cutleaves is another way of handling this, and doing a general clean-up _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
