On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 08:32:41PM -0500, Matt LaPlante wrote: > > I know the ports system is designed to install dependencies automatically, > but how does one go about removing them? Say one large package installs > several dependencies, but then later on that package is removed...and now > we're left with several orphaned packages. Is there a way to either detect, > or even automatically clean out orphaned packages? I'm particularly > concerned because I'm dealing with a few systems which are rather well aged, > and have gone through several upgrade cycles. I know the Linux version of > the ports system found in Gentoo (portage) offers extensive functionality > for finding and removing orphaned dependencies, so I'm hoping FreeBSD has > some such feature as well. Thanks.
Have a look at /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_cutleaves. It is a script that detects and removes orphaned dependencies. Christopher _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
