Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 21:13:21 +1100 From: Sam Lawrance <lawrance@FreeBSD.org> To: Erwin Van de Velde <erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cleaning out the ports Message-ID: <344DFAC8-F3D2-4449-B236-F1C9DBA80CE9@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200612081104.50013.erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com> References: <200612081104.50013.erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com>
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On 08/12/2006, at 9:04 PM, Erwin Van de Velde wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking for a good way to clean out the installed ports: when > having used > a system for some time, one is often left with leave ports that do > not have > any direct use (e.g. a library) and are not required anymore by any > other > installed port. Is there a way to find such ports and remove them > easily? pkg_cutleaves (available from sysutils/pkg_cutleaves) will help you to identify packages that are not required.
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