Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:19:02 +0200 From: Ghirai <ghirai@ghirai.com> To: Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to list all the installed packages... Message-ID: <20090328141902.22cae488.ghirai@ghirai.com> In-Reply-To: <200903270205.n2R254v0003403@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200903270205.n2R254v0003403@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:05:04 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not > required by any other package? > > Some thing like "pkg_info -aR" where the Required by: field is empty. > > Ultimately, that would give a list of "software" versus "libraries". > > The question arise because, while installing a new machine, I found > out that I have help2man installed, that is not required by any other > package, that I did not install myself, that looks unneeded to me > (until I may need it one day). So I would remove it; and would like to > make a list of what is removable (that I did not install, and that is > not required). > > TIA, > > Olivier I use pkg_rmleaves. -- Regards, Ghirai.
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