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From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
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Subject: Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?
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> Well,
> I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could
> watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD.
>
> Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install
> dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port,
> but very often dependencies remains on the system and doing this
> deletion a couple of times will end in some 'zombie' remains of ports.
>
> Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like
> portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a
> rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by
> another port?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Oliver
>
> P.S. I'm not very familiar with the complexicity of the pkgtoolset and
> ports collection, sorry.

I've always used pkg_rmleaves... pops up a nice little dialog listing all 
the ports that aren't required by any other ports... check the ones you 
want to get rid of...  on my non-serious boxes I tend to check anything I 
don't recognize and/or things I know I want gone.

Then it repeats the process with any new ports that are no longer required 
due to anything you just removed.

Seems to work pretty well for me...