Forgive the pun on your email address, but pkg_delete -F <some clause> would probably do the trick for you.
See why the pkg is refusing to be removed and use the string that fits as per the pkg_delete manpage. It works for me. Regards, Craig frantisek holop wrote:
hi there, call me stupid (i am) but i can't find out how can i make pkg_delete delete a package without worrying about anything i am trying to do a local upgrade of blackbox to 0.70.1 the upgrade is trivial, compiles fine without any change, just bumping the version number. now my package is ready and i want to remove the old and install the new. yes, i know, i could probably use pkg_add -u but i'd like to try it this way. amaaq> sudo pkg_delete blackbox Can't remove blackbox without also removing: bbkeys-0.9.0 yes, it makes sense of course, that bbkeys has bb as run dependency but this is a bit strong, is it not? i mean i don't see any problem leaving bbkeys on a system where there is no blackbox. pointless, yes but certainly not impossible. it's like you can't delete xmms-mp3 without deleting xmms itself. so i look at the pkg_delete man page, and i can't see anything which reminds me rpm -e --nodeps (or some such, it was a long time ago). how can i make pkg_delete more macho and just go ahead? -f
