Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:49:25 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up? Message-ID: <20070125194925.70872a21.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <45B94861.6010404@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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In response to "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>: > Well, > I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could > watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. > > Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install > dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, > but very often dependencies remains on the system and doing this > deletion a couple of times will end in some 'zombie' remains of ports. > > Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like > portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a > rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by > another port? sysutils/pkg_cutleaves -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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