On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:29:14PM +0200, Julien Laffaye wrote:
> On 8/30/2012 11:19 PM, John Nielsen wrote:
> > I today noticed the "pkg autoremove" command for the first time, which does 
> > much the same thing as pkg_cutleaves but relies on the "automatic" flag in 
> > the pkgng database rather than user input to determine which "leaf" ports 
> > can be removed. Unfortunately, the pkg2ng utility has no way of knowing 
> > which old-style packages it converts were installed automatically as 
> > dependencies, so they are all marked as non-automatic (i.e. 
> > user-requested). In my case, this was not true for the majority of 
> > installed ports. Since I really like this functionality, I decided to 
> > update my local package database to match my preferences.
> >
> > Having succeeded, I decided a tool to make doing so easy could well benefit 
> > others (as well as my future self). (Plus I wanted an excuse to play with 
> > dialog(1) and "pkg query" a bit.) So here's the result. I'm not too 
> > attached to the name. It shouldn't eat your package database or steal your 
> > lunch money, but I'm not responsible if it does. Other than that, feedback 
> > is welcome.
> >
> >
> > JN
> >
> You want to use `pkg set -A` :)
> We make zero promises concerning the SQL schema in pkgng so it can 
> change at every time and break your script.
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Oh right I missed the sql part :D

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