Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:01 +0400 (GST) From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com> To: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> Cc: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oops, what have i done! Message-ID: <20070801081554.X23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> In-Reply-To: <46ACA036.7070806@crackmonkey.us> References: <200707281513.51368.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070728202316.GA15797@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <200707282051.28386.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <46ACA036.7070806@crackmonkey.us>
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> On Saturday 28 July 2007 20:23:16 Erik Trulsson wrote: >> >>> Short answer: It is perfectly normal. Don't worry. >>> >>> Longer answer: >>> >>> The reason you have all of them installed is that some ports need one of >>> them, and others need another one etc. >>> It is perfectly safe to have all of them installed at the same time. >>> >>> You can delete any or all of them if you wish, but don't be surprised if >>> they get pulled in again by one port or another. >> Kind of related to this topic. Is there any way I can find installed packages that are *not* required by any other packages? Many a times while upgrading ports I've stumbled upon stuff that is no longer required by other packages but is still there ... (Possibly they were pulled in when I installed some package I wanted. Later I removed that, but forgot to remove this requirement package). Regards, Rakhesh
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