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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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