On 3/2/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi gang. Does a leaf port have no build dependants or
no run dependants? I want to be assured that I can
remove a leaf port but not have to put it back in
order to upgrade another port. Utilities such as
portmaster show leaf ports and I'm not sure what it's
really telling me.
I think the traditional sense of a leaf means no run
dependants, as this seems to be the only kind of
dependency registered in pkgdb. Consult the docs
of your particular port management app.
Just be sure to look through the list of leafs though. gmake for example
isn't required by any port to run (at least none of mine) but a lot of
ports need it to build. So removing it would be kind of pointless.
Also, I use pkg_rmleaves and it offers to remove ports like vim, screen,
and rsync, which I obviously want, but nothing else relies on.
Anyway, just saying to double check before letting it do it's thing.
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