Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

[Brett Glass]

At 10:56 AM 12/12/2004, Paul Mather wrote:
  
>On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass <brett at lariat.org>
>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>The problem with deleting a port and the ports on which it depends
>cleanly is that there may be other ports depending on a dependency.  So,
>there needs to be some arbitration to decide what legitimately should go
>and which should stay.

What's needed is a way of doing "garbage collection" -- reference counts
plus a way of resolving circular dependencies (which reference counts
can't handle).

--Brett