To delete one package completely

TomHsiung

TomHsiung

Hi,

It is not uncommon that when you want to install a package but the shell feedbacks a list of packages, like below.

For example, I wanted to install the package "git" on my FreeBSD server but the shell feedback a list of 15 packages to be altered. How to restore the other 14 packages when I wanted to remove git in future?

Tom

Code: 
[tomhsiung@Toms-Server ~]$ sudo pkg install git

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Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 15 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
    git: 2.15.1
    expat: 2.2.5
    p5-Authen-SASL: 2.16_1
    p5-GSSAPI: 0.28_1
    perl5: 5.24.3
    p5-Digest-HMAC: 1.03_1
    python27: 2.7.14_1
    readline: 7.0.3_1
    libffi: 3.2.1_2
    p5-Error: 0.17025
    curl: 7.57.0
    libnghttp2: 1.29.0
    ca_root_nss: 3.34.1
    pcre: 8.40_1
    cvsps: 2.1_2

Number of packages to be installed: 15

The process will require 159 MiB more space.
32 MiB to be downloaded.
 
pkg autoremove will remove these 14 packages that git pulled in.
This command is intelligent and it will only remove packages that no other installed software depends on.
pkg(8)
 
Although what k.jacker said is true do keep in mind that this doesn't apply all the time. In most cases dependencies will be pulled in because a program needs them to function, so if you remove the dependency then this can also remove the program again. I don't know from mind if this also applies here, but it's something to keep in mind.
 
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