System clean-up tool / technique?

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Thu May 5 19:20:09 PDT 2005


On 5/6/2005 2:20, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

>> Hey.
>>
>> I am a very meticulous person.
>> I try to keep my systems as clean as possible.
>>
>> I was wondering that others like me out there do to keep their
>> systems clean for stale files and files with no reference to
>> either the system, its ports and its users.
>
>
> The portupgrade port will install portsclean which can clean up 
> working directories and remove distfiles that aren't referenced by any 
> installed port.
>
> There's another port* command I can't recall the name of that will 
> list ports that are not required by any other port which you can then 
> decide if you want to remove.  Might be an option to pkg_info, I 
> really don't remember.

The port in question is called pkg_cutleaves.

Regards
S.
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