Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:23:02 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is "pkg_glob" no longer working for me? Message-ID: <20859.60758.717521.721560@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <517BEB81.5010404@FreeBSD.org> References: <20130426205459.GA60584@bogodyn.org> <20130427133151.GA84789@whisperer.chthonixia.net> <20859.54772.851637.835802@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <517BEB81.5010404@FreeBSD.org>
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Matthew Seaman writes: > > I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there > > is probably a pkgng replacement, I just haven't bothered to check) > > and pkg_sort (for which there is no alternative) which is necessary > > for certain scripts. > > Well, given that pkgng is a binary package management system, it > achieves the required aim of keeping the ports tree nice and clean by > the simple expedient of not downloading distfiles or using the ports to > compile them. No mess created means none to be cleared up. Except it's not exclusively for binary packages. :-) Portsclean's 'L' option also cleans out un-needed libraries. Which shouldn't be necessary ... but too often is. Robert Huff
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