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>> are there any helper tools for the pkgsrc package collection? I am
>> looking for:
>> 1. something like pkg_cutleaves in FreeBSD or debfoster in Debian. A
>> tool, which asks for every 'leaf-package' (a package, on which no
>> other package depends on) if it should be kept or removed, recursing
>> down, when nessecary. Very useful for finding packages that were at
>> some time installed to satisfy dependencies


Well, I just wrote a little shell script (attached), which does exactly
that: It asks for each leaf package if it should be kept or deleted, and
in the end it actually deletes them. Additionally it provides info about a
package when requested with 'i'. It is written in CSH so it should run
without any additional requirements on all NetBSD machines (except of
course csh,pkg_delete and the /var/db/pkg database).
There are some things that could be improved:
- when a leaf package is marked to be removed, the script should go down
to 'new' leaf packages and ask for their removal too. At the moment you
have to run the tool repeatedly- the program could remember the 'keepers' (in a file), so that in future
invokations only new packages (not marked as keep) are asked about
..and more

Try it out. Maybe it should go into pkgsrc/pkgtools ?

Cheers, Roman


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