commandline to remove a package and its dependencies

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 26/06/07, Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net> wrote:
> [ added freebsd-questions to CC: ]
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> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0800
> Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com>
> > To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>
> > Subject: commandline to remove a package and its dependencies
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0800
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> > Organization: Real Softservice
> >
> > Dear list
> >
> > Stupid question again. Is there a commandline tool that I can use to
> > remove a package 'wmaker', and then it will prompt me if I wish to
> > remove packages that was required only by 'wmaker' and after wmaker is
> > removed, become required by no other packages. Such packages existed
> > only for 'wmaker' is very likely should be removed together with wmaker.
>
> Hi Zhang,
> you basically want to remove "leaves" from the package tree - install
> pkg_cutleaves from ports :
>
> pkg_cutleaves-20061113 Interactive script for deinstalling 'leaf' packages
>
> I suggest you run it interactively, as well as creating a file with exclusions
> (there are some leaves that you want to keep of course). I run it as :
>
> [betom at ayiin] [Tue Jun 26 20:43:55 2007]
> /usr/home/betom
> $ cat bin/show_pkg_leaves.sh
> #!/bin/sh
> pkg_cutleaves -xcl

For something htat is part of the extant base:
# pkg_delete -rd quack-bark-9.9.9

Though you may want to add -n the first go.

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