Uninstalling Ports Question

[Placid Publishing, LLC]

Thanks Bill. I use the port upgrade suit for all of my port management 
needs. I guess what I can do is just pkg_info the pkg I am going to 
delete then see if I need the deps or not and un-install them as well.

Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to "Placid Publishing, LLC" <peter at placidpublishing.net>:
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>> Say I have a new system with nothing installed on it yet from the ports 
>> collection. Lets say I install Apache and lets say it requires php, 
>> python, perl, and ruby. Now lets say I uninstall Apache with "pkg_delete 
>> Apache". Will it remove php, python, perl, and ruby? Or will it leave 
>> those packages? Even if nothing else is depending on them?
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> The system does not automatically clean up dependencies for you.  If
> you uninstall a package that leave dependencies behind, you'll have to
> clean them up yourself.
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>> If it does, how can I remove those quickly with a pkg_* command? Also, 
>> what happens if other programs I installed later use php, python, or 
>> perl? I'm guessing they would just be left?
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> Install and use ports-mgmnt/pkg_cutleaves.  It solves these problems if
> you always use it to uninstall software.
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