How do uninstall a package and all it's dependencies ?

[Low Kian Seong]

The problem about the -R option is that normally that takes off stuff like
xorg-server and friends too ! Really not nice, or am I doing something wrong
?

On 4/20/06, Patrick Bowen <pbowen at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> Low Kian Seong wrote:
>
> >Dear all,
> >
> >Been digging around but never really found the answer to this one, say if
> i
> >install xfce4 package and then later I want to uninstall xfce4 and *all*
> >it's dependencies, how do i do it ?
> >
> >Thank you all in advance.
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> Seong;
>
> I do that fairly often when I'm just looking at packages. Try
> "pkg_deinstall -R package-name", where package-name is replaced with the
> name of the package you want to delete, in your case xfce4.
>
> pkg_deinstall -R xfce4.
>
> Patrick
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