Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:04:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r40020 - projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports Message-ID: <201211160004.qAG0464o081009@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: gjb Date: Fri Nov 16 00:04:06 2012 New Revision: 40020 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/40020 Log: Document pkg-audit. Based on notes from: wblock, swills Modified: projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Modified: projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Fri Nov 16 00:04:04 2012 (r40019) +++ projects/pkgng/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml Fri Nov 16 00:04:06 2012 (r40020) @@ -898,6 +898,32 @@ Upgrading curl from 7.24.0 to 7.24.0_1.. </sect3> </sect2> + <sect2 id="pkgng-advanced-usage"> + <title>Advanced <application>pkgng</application> + Operations</title> + + <sect3 id="pkgng-autoremove"> + <title>Automatically Removing Leaf Dependencies with + <application>pkgng</application></title> + + <para>Removing a package may leave behind unnecessary + dependencies, like <filename + role="package">ca_root_nss</filename> in the example + above. Those packages are still installed, but nothing + depends on them any more. Unneeded packages that were + installed as dependencies can be automatically detected and + removed:</para> + + <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg autoremove</userinput> +Packages to be autoremoved: + ca_root_nss-3.13.5 + +The autoremoval will free 723 kB + +Proceed with autoremoval of packages [y/N]: <userinput>y</userinput> +Deinstalling ca_root_nss-3.13.5... done</screen> + </sect3> + </sect2> </sect1><!-- PKGNG --> <sect1 id="ports-using">
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