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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <ateve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: Obsolete Shared Libraries?
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:40:39 +0000 (UTC)
Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> wrote:

> 9.1 RC3 (started out as 9.0 RELEASE)
> 
> Over time, as ports have been upgraded, I seem to have accumulated a 
> number of obsolete shared libraries - a recent example being /usr/local/
> lib/libpcre.so.1, which appears no longer to be linked in by anything, 
> having been replaced by libpcre.so.3.
> 
> Is there a convenient and safe utility to clean out this detritus? I'm 
> not trying to save disk space or anything; it's just a matter of tidiness.

	portsclean - it will also tidy up distfiles, packages and work
areas.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>