Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:18:23 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Cc: Jari Kirma <kirma@cs.hut.fi> Subject: Re: Garbage collection of installed packages Message-ID: <408CFE0F.4090007@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200404261215.i3QCFUJ1027405@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> References: <200404261215.i3QCFUJ1027405@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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Tuc wrote:
>>I use this script to find packages which are NOT dependencies of other
>>packages:
>>
>>#/bin/sh
>>cd /var/db/pkg
>>for i in * ; do [ -e ${i}/+REQUIRED_BY ] || echo ${i} ; done
>>
>>This way you also see the packages which you installed expicitly (most
>>of them are not depended on by other packages either), but I suppose
>>you know/recognize those.
>
> I ran this.... 72 of my 176 came up.
>
> Some that came up that I never remember installing by hand :
>
> autoconf-2.13.000227_5
> autoconf-2.57_1
> automake-1.4.5_9
> bison-1.75_2
> ezm3-1.1_1
> gmake-3.80_2
> help2man-1.33.1
> intltool-0.30_1
> ispell-3.2.06_4
> libtool-1.3.5_2
> libtool-1.4.3_3
> libtool-1.5.2_1
> qmake-3.3.1
> rpm-3.0.6_9
A lot of these are required to _install_ certain programs, but are not
required to run them (bison, autoconf, rpm, gmake ...)
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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