[patch] remove build dependencies in bsd.ports.mk

Mark Linimon linimon at lonesome.com
Sun Nov 20 11:08:53 PST 2005


On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:03:46PM -0500, Nicolas Blais wrote:
> As I 'ls /var/db/pkg', I noticed a lot of ports I didn't use and that didn't 
> have a +REQUIRED_BY file. Ports such as ezm3 and gcc-ooo that I could do 
> without. So, what I did is a simple hack in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk so that 
> I can run 'make deinstall-builddepends' after a port is installed, and it 
> will ask me to remove any build dependencies.

A lot of people use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves, which will interactively walk
through all unused ('leaf') ports.

mcl


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