Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:05:48 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Forcing port reinstalls without rebuilding over and over again Message-ID: <20181213200548.6427bb44.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20181213182812.204f2e74df6d43369246a29a@sohara.org> References: <47758EF2A172AE3BCA2F6E66@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <1793865D5AEE79C2FC27331F@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20181212204151.659fb436.freebsd@edvax.de> <296D11C4E1B5870932452073@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20181212214714.4017e195.freebsd@edvax.de> <5116e02a-79e8-d0c5-89c7-88b80effd693@dreamchaser.org> <B1479069F776C9AE6BD2F6E4@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <dd3a2542-a505-c4c0-671f-6f300d351471@dreamchaser.org> <20181213191135.961db2d8.freebsd@edvax.de> <20181213182812.204f2e74df6d43369246a29a@sohara.org>
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:28:12 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:11:35 +0100 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:52:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: > > > On 12/12/18 4:14 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > > No, you don't. All you need are the top level ports. Right now I > > > have 800 ports installed. To get those, I only install 36. > > > > Yes, that way my basic idea. :-) > > Does pkg leaf work well enough for ports based systems ? Yes, at least, it should. But of course it cannot deal with one problem: recognizing something as "not needed" that has been installed as not being a dependency of something else. ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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