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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