Ports system quality

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Sep 2 13:25:58 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 09/02/2011 02:24, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> Finally, I recommend to install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves and
>> run it regularly after updates
>
> portmaster -s does the same thing.

Well, sorta.  How it chooses what to offer to remove is different. 
portmaster -s offers to remove just gle here, then nothing on subsequent 
uses.

pkg_cutleaves offers to remove every root and leaf port that's not 
depended on by another port.


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