How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ?

[Patrick Bowen]

Low Kian Seong wrote:

> The problem about the -R option is that normally that takes off stuff 
> like xorg-server and friends too ! Really not nice, or am I doing 
> something wrong ?
>
> On 4/20/06, *Patrick Bowen* <pbowen at fastmail.fm 
> <mailto:pbowen at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
>
>     Low Kian Seong wrote:
>
>     >Dear all,
>     >
>     >Been digging around but never really found the answer to this
>     one, say if i
>     >install xfce4 package and then later I want to uninstall xfce4
>     and *all*
>     >it's dependencies, how do i do it ?
>     >
>     >Thank you all in advance.
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>     Seong;
>
>     I do that fairly often when I'm just looking at packages. Try
>     "pkg_deinstall -R package-name", where package-name is replaced
>     with the
>     name of the package you want to delete, in your case xfce4.
>
>     pkg_deinstall -R xfce4.
>
>     Patrick
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>

If the dependancy pkg is required by something else, then pkg_deinstall 
will tell me that it can't delete the dependancy pkg because its used by 
another pkg. Works like a charm.

Patrick

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