pkg command to remove multiple packages
Matthew Seaman
matthew at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 25 10:32:11 UTC 2014
On 25/01/2014 10:15, James Griffin wrote:
> Hi
>
> With this new pkgng thing, if I use 'pkg delete -R -x xfce' will it
> remove all the stuff related to the xfce4 installation. I had to use
> ports to build xfce4 because there wasn't a meta-pkg to install (at
> least not that I could find), but i'm using kde4 now instead. Could do
> with the disk space.
>
> I guess that command won't find a few bits like thunar and some libs.
'pkg deinstall -R pkgname' deletes pkgname and everything that requires
pkgname, which is 90% of what you need.
The remaining 10% can be cleaned up by:
pkg autoremove
This deletes packages that were installed solely to fulfill the
dependencies of pkgname -- if you're building your packages locally with
portmaster / portupgrade or similar, it should try and remove any build
dependencies[*] too, which may or may not be what you want. Also, it
won't remove a package if something else has subsequently been installed
that also requires it.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] pkg(8) only ever considers run-time dependencies.
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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