On 9/19/21 3:21 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2021-09-19, Jordan Geoghegan <jor...@geoghegan.ca> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently decided to clean up my desktop machine of unused packages etc.
>> I've been running release/stable on this machine since around the OpenBSD
>> 6.2 era. The machine has been upgraded over the years all the way to 6.9.
>> I'm not sure that it's relevant, but I've regularly run sysclean in an
>> effort to keep my install clean and fresh.
>>
>> When running "pkg_info -m", within the output list I am shown a number of
>> random dependencies which I did not manually install. Is there a way to
>> remove the "manually installed" tag from these library/dependency packages
>> to allow them to potentially be cleaned up by "pkg_delete -a"?
> Yes, with pkg_add(1):
>
> "-aa Force already installed packages to be tagged as
> installed automatically."
>
>
Thanks Stuart, you're a saint - that certainly did the trick!
Regards,
Jordan
