Basic Port Management.Is there any?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Oct 31 04:55:09 PST 2005


"George Katsanos" <gkatsanos at gmail.com> writes:

> As a fresh Freebsd user[and fan] I am trying to set up my WM / X environment
> and choose the apps I will use for basic stuff.
> Text Editors , Image viewers , Mail apps , FileManagers.
>  
> So after I see some screenshots [it would be very nice and handy if some
> screenshots could be added to the freebsd.org/ports database] I'm making
> install the port to check it out. Some times , I decided that I don't like
> it . So my first though is to get rid of it , cause I don't want ''trash''
> on my system.
> I'm making deinstall [or pkg_delete] to remove it. Everything ok so far ,
> but what about the one zillion dependant pkg's the app made?
> You can say , do a pkg_delete -r . Yes but this will may delete also pkgs
> that are Needed by other ports/apps..
>  
>  
> Is there any good plan solution for this ?...

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