On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 09:53:30PM +0100, 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. > So just do a pkg_add -r blackbox-0.70.1 with your new package.
> 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. This is a contrieved problem, you don't need to delete blackbox in this specific case.
