From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 04:20:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A1E16A418 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:20:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakheshster@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A63613C45B for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:20:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rakheshster@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so69835wxd for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:20:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:from:sender; b=R59q+DicKGbIWeJdz2QMBdznRgP+y5SecEaRJcy+xMzneQMFXu7ViJRSBavR8vKhXKhfLOrtda4vOSiWb0iNSNqus5wSpADNQ75r0JIHCMrFQ05HAwUFugy9OYNpELWwp7O8xDYhSIBCgx15957AX/jSSw8g5vwJJc2HX3r/Jl4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:date:x-x-sender:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:from:sender; b=p/J5/JwhKavfVuW5HN0R7VVWq7lT2CgPqmlczhRlY7b3IDI8+1frDUe8M6S36NFZe5EpPJIamLz0tX+7M1SaHARjq85+6y6VeLNBMk05ZAwraCSM1TTt4AW0hcxaM7pDgUuSfzsHZSkB4xPYTfUUdvM2u2PT9VVStu76wE61VRc= Received: by 10.90.49.1 with SMTP id w1mr102209agw.1185942021493; Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.home.rakhesh.com ( [82.178.139.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 36sm152009agc.2007.07.31.21.20.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:20:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scrat.home.rakhesh.com (scrat.home.rakhesh.com [192.168.17.31]) by smtp.home.rakhesh.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8B111420; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:01 +0400 (GST) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 08:20:01 +0400 (GST) X-X-Sender: rakhesh@scrat.home.rakhesh.com To: Adam J Richardson In-Reply-To: <46ACA036.7070806@crackmonkey.us> Message-ID: <20070801081554.X23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com> References: <200707281513.51368.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <20070728202316.GA15797@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <200707282051.28386.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <46ACA036.7070806@crackmonkey.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed From: Rakhesh Sasidharan Sender: Rakhesh Sasidharan Cc: Pollywog , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oops, what have i done! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:20:23 -0000 On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Pollywog wrote: >> On Saturday 28 July 2007 20:23:16 Erik Trulsson wrote: >> >>> Short answer: It is perfectly normal. Don't worry. >>> >>> Longer answer: >>> >>> The reason you have all of them installed is that some ports need one of >>> them, and others need another one etc. >>> It is perfectly safe to have all of them installed at the same time. >>> >>> You can delete any or all of them if you wish, but don't be surprised if >>> they get pulled in again by one port or another. >> Kind of related to this topic. Is there any way I can find installed packages that are *not* required by any other packages? Many a times while upgrading ports I've stumbled upon stuff that is no longer required by other packages but is still there ... (Possibly they were pulled in when I installed some package I wanted. Later I removed that, but forgot to remove this requirement package). Regards, Rakhesh