Cleaning Out Ports?

[Matt LaPlante]

This looks like what I'm after, thank you!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael C. Shultz [mailto:reso3w83 at verizon.net]
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:23 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Cc: Matt LaPlante
> Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
> 
> On Monday 31 January 2005 06:16 pm, Matt LaPlante wrote:
> > Well what I'm more concerned with is how would you locate orphaned
> > dependencies after the fact.  For a parallel example, in gentoo you
> > would "emerge --depclean" which searches the tree for any orphaned
> > packages and removes them.  So say I hadn't used the -r flag when
> > removing packages on BSD, how could I find the leftovers later?
> >
> Look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves
> 
> here is a excerpt from its man page:
> 
> "pkg_cutleaves  finds  installed 'leaf' packages, i.e. packages that are
>  not referenced by any other installed package, and lets you decide  for
>  each  one  if  you want to keep or deinstall it (via pkg_deinstall(1)).
> Once the packages marked for  removal  have  been  flushed/deinstalled,
>  you'll  be  asked  if  you want to do another run (to see packages that
>  have become 'leaves' now because you've deinstalled the package(s) that
>  depended  on  them).  In every run you will be shown only packages that
>  you haven't marked for keeping, yet."
> 
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> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Pat Maddox [mailto:pergesu at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 8:55 PM
> > > To: Matt LaPlante
> > > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports?
> > >
> > > If you try to remove a package that has child dependencies, then
> > > it'll let you know.  You'll have to use the -f flag to force it to
> > > delete the package, despite there being any dependencies.  If you
> > > want to delete a package along with all its dependencies, you can
> > > use the -r flag.
> > >
> > > Use pkgdb -F to fix any dependencies that might be broken.
> > >
> > > I think that's about right.  I'm a FreeBSD newbie :)
> >
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