Best way to cleanly uninstall packages?

Bryan Cassidy b_cassidy at bellsouth.net
Tue Oct 21 22:13:28 PDT 2003


cd /usr/ports/<category>/port/
make deinstall

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:55:59 +1000
"Chris Richards" <chrisric at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have installed 2 packages which inturn installed a bunch of
> dependencies... They are "imageindex-1.0.6" and "gallery-1.4.0.1" I was
> seeing which one I like best - now I have decided I want to keep gallery
> and uninstall imageindex.
> 
> What is the cleanest way to do this? I have noticed that they both have
> common dependencies so I can't just use the "pkg_delete -r" option - I
> am sure this is a common problem and there is probably an easy way to
> uninstall all dependencies for imageindex except for the ones that are
> needed for gallery.
> 
> Can anyone help me?
> 
> Thank you,
> Chris
> 
> 
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