deinstall ports

[Dominic Marks]

Rodrigo Galiano wrote:
> No, if you make 'deinstall' under a specific port it will only uninstall
> the
> software package with the dependencies. If you want to deinstall
> dependencies do the command 'make clean' to check out what will be
> actually
> installed and diff the output with the results obtained with the
> 'pkg_info'
> command. Then finally do the command 'pkg_delete #package_name#' to
> deinstall the dependencies.

I believe the original question was if removing a package would by default
removes the dependencies of the package too, to which the answer is no.  I
don't think the intention of the original poster was to attempt to
actually deinstall the dependencies.

Perhaps I misread the original post.

Dominic