Removing a port without upsetting dependencies

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Sun Dec 11 06:39:05 PST 2005


Ian Moore <no-spam at swiftdsl.com.au> writes:

> Hi,
> I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the mplayer-skins port 
> as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the skins port being broken a lot 
> because the source files are often unfetchable, so I removed the port (I 
> can't remember what method I used to do that now).
> 
> Ever since,  when I do a portupgrade & mplayer or various ports that it is a 
> dependency of get updated, my ports database gets upset because those ports 
> are marked as having mplayer-skins as a stale dependency.
> 
> For example, today I have:
> Stale dependency: mplayerplug-in-3.17 --> mplayer-skins-1.1.2_1 -- manually 
> run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
> 
> I generally either delete the dependency or link it to mplayer-gtk-esound, but 
> the dependency comes back next time mplayerplug-in gets updated.
> 
> I assume I've just used the wrong method for deleting the mplayer-skins port & 
> I need to re-install & delete it the correct way. If I'm right, how should I 
> do that?
> 
> If not, is there a way I can permanently remove the mplayer-skins port and not 
> have it appear as a dependency of other ports?

Modify those "other ports," I guess.

That's kind of what dependency means; they "depend" on the dependencies...


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