pkg_delete question

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 23:50, Yuan Jue wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:21, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 December 2005 22:10, Yuan Jue wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:00, Dmitry Sidorov wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:55 +0800, Yuan Jue wrote:
> > > > > hello, all
> > > > >
> > > > > I wanna delete a package that I don't want now. I know that when I
> > > > > use portinstall -R xxx to install it, many dependencies have been
> > > > > installed too. Now I wanna delete them all if they are not used by
> > > > > any other packages.
> > > > >
> > > > > how can I do it? can I "pkg_delete -r xxx"?
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks.
> > > >
> > > > yes you can,
> > > > ls -al /var/db/pkg
> > > > find your package name, and execute:
> > > > pkg_delete -r package_name
> > >
> > > thanks for your reply.
> > > but doesn't "pkg_delete -r xxx" use to delete all packages
> > > that depend on the xxx? what I wanna delete are those packages
> > > that xxx depend on. any ideas?
> >
> > To delete ports that none depend on try:
> >
> > sysutils/portmanager
> >
> > portmanager -slid
>
> thanks. it works very well :)

Your welcome :)

-Mike