freebsd stable - Jun 2007 - deinstall ports

Hello all,
I'm new user in FreeBSD and have a question about
ports..
If a port is depend on others ports, during the
deinstall it will deinstall and all dependencies?

Many Thanks
Best regards


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Vladislav Storojenco wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm new user in FreeBSD and have a question about
> ports..
> If a port is depend on others ports, during the
> deinstall it will deinstall and all dependencies?
It depends on what command you issue.  If you try and remove an installed
package which had other packages dependent upon it, then it will fail.

# pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/apache-2.2.4_2/
pkg_delete: package 'apache-2.2.4_2' is required by these other packages
and may not be deinstalled:
php5-5.2.1_3
php5-mysql-5.2.1_3
php5-pcre-5.2.1_5
php5-posix-5.2.1_3
php5-session-5.2.1_3
php5-simplexml-5.2.1_3
...

But you could force it by using `pkg_delete -f` if you wanted.  This on
its own will not remove the dependancies, you need to use `pkg_delete -rf`
for that.

If you run `make deinstall` from the port directory you get the same
result as having used `pkg_delete -f` (but not -rf).

Dominic

> If a port is depend on others ports, during the
> deinstall it will deinstall and all dependencies?
No. Only the one port you specify will be deinstalled. If you want to 
remove dependencies that are no longer needed, use ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves.

- Bartosz