Removing a port without upsetting dependencies

[RW]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:46, Ian Moore wrote:
> Hi,
> I have mplayer installed and at one stage I installed the mplayer-skins
> port as well. Then I got sick of dealing with the skins port being broken a
> lot because the source files are often unfetchable, so I removed the port
> (I can't remember what method I used to do that now).

A much better solution is to:

 cd /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer-skins && make config

then deselect everything, but the default skin. 

Since I did that I haven't had any problem with unfetchable skins.