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

[Beech Rintoul]

> 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 ?
> > >
> > 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

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 19:23, Low Kian Seong wrote:
> 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 ?

Add the -i flag. From the man:

-i 
 --interactive     Request confirmation before attempting to delete each
                         package, regardless whether or not the standard input
                         device is a terminal.

A little more hands on, but it'll keep you from nuking something you want to 
keep.

Beech

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