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Subject: Re: find ports that aren't required anymore
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Cool, thanks Mark. Guess that's also a reason to learn new pkg tools.=20
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On 2013-08-31, at 1:41 PM, Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>=20
>=20
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2013, at 14:19, Dale Scott wrote:
>> I was using the postfix port, but decided to replace it with ssmtp to
>> reduce
>> ports in use and simplify system updating (deleting postfix with
>> pkg_delete). Is it possible that deleting postfix will leave ports
>> installed
>> that aren't required anymore? Will pkg_delete also delete any
>> dependencies
>> no longer required? If I could have ports still installed that aren't
>> required anymore? How can I find them now? Portmaster?
>=20
> If you're using the old pkg format you'll want to use something like
> pkg_cutleaves which is in ports.
>=20
> If you're using the new pkg format you can simply run "pkg autoremove".
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