Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:18:35 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu Subject: Re: superfluous java ports? Message-ID: <20040305111835.4f2f5d44@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20040304230219.GD52768@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> References: <16455.43839.642991.919915@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20040304230219.GD52768@slytherin.ds.psu.edu>
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:02:19 -0500
"Dr. Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> wrote:
> I was wondering how many were cruft the other day, and did something
> like:
>
> ls /var/db/pkg/*/+REQ* | sed -e "s/-.*//" -e "s/^.*\///" > tlist
>
> to get a file of all packages upon which something else depends, and
> then
>
> /var/db/pkg | grep -v -f tlist
>
> to get a list of files upon which nothing else depends, which I then
> inspected for candidates for pkg_deinstall
sysutils/pkg_cutleaves does something similar.
Bye,
Alexander.
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