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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 2014 20:48:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
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Subject:   Re: pkg autoremove option to just list?
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:29-0600, Gary Aitken wrote:

> Thought this would be easy but couldn't find what I needed.
> 
> Is there a way to do the equivalent of "pkg autoremove" without actually doing
> the remove -- i.e. to get a list of what pkg autoremove would try to do?  I
> thought there would be an option for this but didn't see one.

Try: pkg autoremove -n

Hint: pkg help autoremove or man pkg-autoremove

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Dave Babb <dcbdbis@comcast.net> writes:

> I am setting up a new system for a municipality. I want to setup one
> user's home dir, their desktop, .profile, dir tree, etc....then clone
> it to all the other users I need to setup. email is not a part of this
> cloning process. I am trying to avoid the labor setting up each user's
> desktop individually.....
[...]
> May I ask for pointers please?

useradd(8)? 

Possibly with a custom configuration file and/or dotfile directory?



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