Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

[Brett Glass]

At 06:42 PM 12/11/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

>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..

Which, by the way, is what the owner of the machine is seeing. He's
listed the ports that were installed by running pkg_info, and is
laboriously visiting each one's directory and trying to do a 
"make deinstall". But it's refusing to delete things due to dependency
issues. I'm not sure, but I'll bet that the dependencies here aren't
a clean, hierarchical tree but rather more of a "web". If there's
a circular dependency, he's stuck.

Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no provision 
for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend
to use a minimal number of ports and packages, and so didn't realize
that this was such a difficult thing until now.

--Brett