pkg question...

[Graham Menhennitt]

Peter Jeremy wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-May-17 22:19:05 +1000, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
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>>Yann Golanski wrote:
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>>>Is there a way to remove a package and the dependencies that only said
>>>package uses?
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>>ports -> sysutils/pkg_rmleaves
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>That is an interactive script that lets you delete all packages that
>aren't required by other packages.  You still need some way to work
>out what dependencies were installed by the first package.
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But I think it can be made to do what Yann wants. You can pkg_delete the 
original package/port (A as he described it). Then run pkg_rmleaves 
(possibly more than once) and it will delete B and D, but keep C because 
it's not a leaf. If you have any leaf packages that you don't want to 
delete, you need to be careful of those. Perhaps run pkg_rmleaves before 
deleting A and note any pre-existing leaves.

Graham