Re: pkg_delete -A does not work

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:50:32PM +0200, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> It seems to me that "pkg_delete -A" doesn't work as it is documented.
> 
>      -A    Recursively remove all automatically installed packages that
>            were needed by the given packages and are no longer required.
>            See also the -R flag.
> 
> Example is below. Package abcde is installed. All dependencies including
> id3lib are marked as "installed as a dependency".  abcde depends on
> id3v2 which in turn depends on id3lib.  After "pkg_delete -A abcde"
> id3lib is kept installed and nothing depends on it (see pkg_leaves
> output). Did I miss something?

No, this should work. Please file a bug report.

Thanks,
 Thomas