Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:25:13 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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: <20181213192513.9a3d16dbbe0b5415958d5fea@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20181213200548.6427bb44.freebsd@edvax.de> 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> <20181213200548.6427bb44.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:05:48 +0100 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > 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. ;-) True, but at least it's a smaller list and you can then use pkg set -A 0 on the ones you didn't really want. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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