Complete Port Removal Question

[Tony Shadwick]

I would suggest using portmanager.  There is a method in there for 
displaying "leaves", or installed packages in from the ports tree that 
have no dependencies, and allow you to safely remove them.

I'd say uninstall the software you don't want to remove, then have 
portmanager show you the leaves that are left, and remove the leaves.

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, M. Goodell wrote:

>
> How can I remove a port and all of it's dependencies from a system? For example, I installed sqWebmail and tried it out then decided it's not what we were looking for. Now, I would like to not only remove sqWebmail but all of the stuff it installed along with it.
>
> sqwebmail also installed things like:
>
> - courier-authlib-base-0.56
> - ispell-3.2.06_13
>
> and others as well
>
> Is there a safe / quick way to remove the dependencies for a port and not break the rest of the system by removing stuff other things depend on? For example, I don't want to remove Perl obviously which is a dependency of sqwebmail.
>
> Thank you,
>
> FreeBSDUtah
>
>
>
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