Remove ports dependencies

[Christopher Key]

Ruben de Groot wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Christopher Key typed:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently tried to install vim from the ports collections, however I
>> didn't do it with 'WITHOUT_X11', and accordingly it went off and
>> installed X + presumably a whole load of dependencies which I really
>> don't want.  Is there any way to get a list of exactly what it added so
>> that I can go and remove it cleanly?
>>     
>
> the command "pkg_deinstall -nR vim" (this command is port of the portupgrade 
> package) will give you a list of all packages vim depends on. Removing the 'n'
> switch will actually upward-recursively deinstall these packages, excluding
> the ones that are needed by other packages.
> Then rebuild vim WITHOUT_X11 ;)
>
> cheers,
> Ruben
>   
Thanks Ruben, portupgrade contained a lot more tools that I wasn't aware 
of.  In the end, I ripped everything out and started afresh.

I do have another query though; pkg_cutleaves is supposed to show you a 
list of of packages upon which nothing depends.  In theory this means 
that there should be nothing in this list beyond the ports I've 
explicitly installed. However, I do seem to have gained autoconf, 
automake, gmake, help2man and libtool.  Am I right in thinking that 
these were required for building / installing something at some point, 
but that nothing would break if I were to remove them?

Regards,

Chris