Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:47:21 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remove ports dependencies Message-ID: <18108.60153.355168.203495@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <46BCE783.2010407@cam.ac.uk> References: <46BC51C3.1020103@cam.ac.uk> <20070810123939.GA84642@ei.bzerk.org> <46BCE783.2010407@cam.ac.uk>
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Christopher Key writes: > I do have another query though; pkg_cutleaves is supposed to show > you a list of of packages upon which nothing depends. In theory > this means that there should be nothing in this list beyond the > ports I've explicitly installed. This theory is incorrect. > However, I do seem to have gained autoconf, automake, gmake, > help2man and libtool. Am I right in thinking that these were > required for building / installing something at some point, but > that nothing would break if I were to remove them? I'm not sure about help2man, but for the others: yes. The price will be having them automatically reinstalled every time a port is built which uses them. While doing so will not take long ... none of these is a space-hog, nor do they adversely affect system operation. General practice is to leave them be. Robert Huff
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