Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:37:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: ronggui <ronggui.huang@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The best way to keep the system clean? Message-ID: <20070924143540.A28769@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <38b9f0350709240517x5d6f976fn9fb2f76105dc51e6@mail.gmail.com> References: <38b9f0350709240517x5d6f976fn9fb2f76105dc51e6@mail.gmail.com>
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> My problem, many times I install some software from ports, it install > the dependency software. Then after some time, I find that software > isn't what I want, and deinstall it. At this point, the dependency > software isn't necessary as well. Is there a way to clean them > automatically, like the apt-get autoremove in the Ubuntu system. possibly there are better methods but i do: pkg_info|cut -f 1 -d " " >package.list edit package.list and remove from that list ONLY things you do need. do pkg_delete `cat package.list` and pkg_delete will skip everything that is needed for packages you removed from list, and will delete everything else.
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