Possibly OT: ports question/suggestion

[Doug Poland]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 02:02:45PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote:
> Maybe this is not the best place for this (I'm not really sure) but
> would there be a way to setup the ports tree so that when a particular
> package is deinstalled that it's dependancies would be deinstalled if
> they were only installed becasue of the port in the first place.  
> 
I believe pkg_deinstall -R will behave in the manner you describe.  

> "Would you like to remove Package B, since it was installed as a
> dependancy? [y/N]?", etc.
>
pkg_deinstall will not prompt you, however.

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Regards,
Doug