Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

[Lowell Gilbert]

Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> writes:

> Brett Glass wrote:
> > I'm unfamiliar with "pkgdb". What does it do?
> 
> When you change a huge number of dependencies by deleting gnome and/or
> X11, it's a good idea to upgrade the pakacge database:
> 
>       The pkgdb command is a tool to create or update the system package data-
>       base which is used by the portupgrade(1) tool suite.  It maintains a hash
>       that maps an installed file to a package name, a hash that maps a package
>       to an origin, and a list of installed packages.
> [ ... ]
>       The pkgdb command also works as an interactive tool for fixing the pack-
>       age registry database when -F is specified.  It helps you resolve stale
>       dependencies, unlink cyclic dependencies, complete stale or missing ori-
>       gins and remove duplicates.  You should run this command periodically so
>       portupgrade(1) and other pkg_* tools can work effectively and reliably.
> 
> You might find that portupgrade wants to pull in X11 again for some
> port that was left over; you will then need to either delete such
> ports, or recompile them without X11, or find an alternate, etc
> depending on the specifics.

That isn't supposed to happen.  If another port has X11 listed as a
dependency, "make deinstall" would have said so and refused to remove
it..