Complete Port Removal Question

[John Brooks]

"pkg_info -r <pkgname>"    shows dependencies

"pkg_delete -r <pkgname>"     removes pkg and dependencies

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John Brooks
john at day-light.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of M. Goodell
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 10:24 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Complete Port Removal Question
>
>
>
> How can I remove a port and all of it's dependencies from a
> system? For example, I installed sqWebmail and tried it out then
> decided it's not what we were looking for. Now, I would like to
> not only remove sqWebmail but all of the stuff it installed along with it.
>
> sqwebmail also installed things like:
>
> - courier-authlib-base-0.56
> - ispell-3.2.06_13
>
> and others as well
>
> Is there a safe / quick way to remove the dependencies for a port
> and not break the rest of the system by removing stuff other
> things depend on? For example, I don't want to remove Perl
> obviously which is a dependency of sqwebmail.
>
> Thank you,
>
> FreeBSDUtah
>
>
>
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