> > Do a search on XFree86 and use the dependancies to delete it. You > can do this the "make search" way or you can use a tool called > portsearch that is located in /usr/ports/Tools/scripts/portsearch I > copied it to a convenient location and then aliased it as "alias > search 'portsearch -n $1'". Then if you search ^XFree86-4 you can > see all of the dependancies. A number of ports are associated with > XFree86 and have to be updated at the same time. All I see on a > search for build-deps is freetype2 and imake but there have always > been others. > > A portupgrade -Rrf XFree86 would rebuild all of the important ones, > which includes all of the run-deps, and add any new ones that you > need. It is handy to not be running X-Windows when you do this. > > You can remove all of XFree86 by > pkg_delete -f 'XFree86*' but you also need to delete both imake's. > You really have to reinstall everything that uses XFree86-libraries > because it is a static library and you have to build all of the > ports that refer to it. To do that, you just add "-r" to the > pkg_delete command. All you need at that point is the time it takes > to do the new installs. To rebuild XFree86 and all of the ports that > use it can take quite a bit of time.
okay I am trying to deinstall the imakes .. but it does not completely deinstall because its required by other packages. what else can be done here please? --- snip -- # pkg_info | grep "XFree86" imake-4.2.0_1 Imake and other utilities from XFree86 imake-4.3.0 Imake and other utilities from XFree86 # pkg_delete -r imake-4.2.0_1 pkg_delete: package 'p5-GD2-2.07' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: p5-GD-Graph-1.43 p5-GD-Graph3d-0.63 p5-GD-TextUtil-0.86 reportmagic-2.21 pkg_delete: package 'imake-4.2.0_1' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: p5-GD2-2.07 # pkg_delete -r imake-4.3.0 pkg_delete: package 'p5-GD2-2.07' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: p5-GD-Graph-1.43 p5-GD-Graph3d-0.63 p5-GD-TextUtil-0.86 reportmagic-2.21 pkg_delete: package 'imake-4.3.0' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: p5-GD2-2.07 --- snip --- > > Kent > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
