Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:38:08 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Remove a Port and All Dependencies Message-ID: <17407.21136.641946.90928@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <43FF5081.6050601@averageadmins.com> References: <43FF5081.6050601@averageadmins.com>
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Jeff Cross writes: > I would like to know if it is possible to remove a port/package > and all of the dependencies it installed that are not needed by > other applications. I don't know of a way to do it automatically; among other things, there seems to be way too great a chance of removing something prematurely. However, I have done this manually by repeated application of pkg_cutleaves (sysutils/pkg_cutleaves) + pkg_delete. Robert "back to the libtool upgrade" Huff
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