Re: dependency clean-up

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Zafer Aydogan wrote:

> I'm installing and deinstalling packages from pkgsrc quite regularly.
> But especially, after installing packages with a lot of dependencies
> and removing them, I don't know how to delete the unused dependencies
> of this package.
> 
> How do you keep your system clean from ballast ?

See pkg_info -u and pkg_admin(8) about "automatic=YES".

You could use that to generate a list to pkg_delete.

Maybe pkg_delete should be extended to know automatic=YES?



  Jeremy C. Reed