From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 2 21:22:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F4080106564A for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 21:21:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8FF152F01; Fri, 2 Sep 2011 21:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4E6148F6.3020600@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:21:58 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0.1) Gecko/20110901 Thunderbird/6.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <201109020924.p829OGAG000943@lurza.secnetix.de> <4E60A222.9040304@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Oliver Fromme , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports system quality X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:22:00 -0000 On 09/02/2011 06:25, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote: > >> On 09/02/2011 02:24, Oliver Fromme wrote: >>> Finally, I recommend to install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves and >>> run it regularly after updates >> >> portmaster -s does the same thing. > > Well, sorta. How it chooses what to offer to remove is different. > portmaster -s offers to remove just gle here, then nothing on subsequent > uses. > > pkg_cutleaves offers to remove every root and leaf port that's not > depended on by another port. Fair enough. My feeling on that is that it's dangerous, since even though something technically may not be a dependency of something it may still be needed. Users can do 'portmaster -l' and look at the list of roots and leaves to see what could possibly be deleted, and then 'portmaster -e unwanted-port' will remove it, and then run portmaster -s when it's done. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/