That's correct; this type of functionality is exactly what I was searching for.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Loren M. Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 6:50 AM > To: Michael C. Shultz > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Matt LaPlante > Subject: Re: Cleaning Out Ports? > > > There's still one missing part to it that gentoo's portage has. In > addition to the standard database of installed packages, emerge keeps > track > of every single package that you explicitly installed in a file called > world. Upgrades read this file and update all the packages listed, > including there dependencies first. Now if a package that was installed > to satisfy a dependency, but not explicitly installed is now longer > needed, it will stay on the system until the next time emerge --depclean > is run. --depclean tells emerge to remove any packages that are not in > the world file and are not needed to satify dependencies for packages in > the world file, either directly or indirectly. I think this is the > behavior that the original poster was asking for. AFAIK, this is not > yet possible in FreeBSD, but it should be a trivial matter to add > something like a world file to portupgrade. Maybe, if I have time this > week I could work on a patch... > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
