Remove a Port and All Dependencies
    Robert Huff 
    roberthuff at rcn.com
       
    Fri Feb 24 10:44:01 PST 2006
    
    
  
Jeff Cross writes:
>  I would like to know if it is possible to remove a port/package
>  and all of the dependencies it installed that are not needed by
>  other applications.
	I don't know of a way to do it automatically; among other
things, there seems to be way too great a chance of removing
something prematurely.
	However, I have done this manually by repeated application of
pkg_cutleaves (sysutils/pkg_cutleaves) + pkg_delete.
		Robert "back to the libtool upgrade" Huff
	
    
    
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