[RE:] Freebsd ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

Thanks to this email (omitted, too lengthy) I removed directories sheduled for deletion which would have halted portmaster's procedures were they to be only existing with my own files within them...

bsdar
games/pets

and copied portmanager, its .so.'s, and man page for safekeeping (I used it in the past to "figure-stuff-out-before-doing-anything>> Cntl-C" because its list onscreen was very informative as to what I had installed, although in later versions IIRC it guessed wrong for some reason...
(/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager)

and deinstalled, "schedule for deletion"

doodle
gogo


The process was aided by TABBING with the flat files in /var/db/pkg, (where is that port, "is it installed"; pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/ etc etc) using non-pkgng tools.  I hope that when/if pkgng becomes mandatory 
its man pages are complete enough so that one can easily find/remember the commands to use... or include an option to write an
updated /var/db/pkg set upon its cessation of any particular operation. (I foresee without those files, it may take a bit longer).

Just two small points to consider.   
Thanks for reading.
Not wishing to trouble anyone with the time needed to formulate a
reply. 

J. Bouquet