On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:48:20PM +0100, Chris Rawnsley wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Mon, 20 Apr 2020, at 14:05, Marc Espie wrote: > > Actually, not having recursive depends easily available on an installed > > package base is somewhat tedu-ish. > > > > Most specifically, it's not very useful for anything in common usage. What > > would you want it for ?... sure it's nice information, but in practice, > > unused dependencies from former ports get gc'd with pkg_delete -a... > > The use case was that I was installing Vim and it has a few variants. > In the past I discovered that using no_x11 means that Vim does not > automatically interface with the X11 clipboards. Makes sense but > as I only use Vim in the terminal I do not need the GUI. Still, > using packages is more convenient than compiling it myself so the > question arose which variant has the least impact on my system and > still gets me the X11 clipboard features that I desire?
Go outside of vim proper and run autocutsel, it might give you the solution.
