Christopher Key writes:
> I do have another query though; pkg_cutleaves is supposed to show
> you a list of of packages upon which nothing depends. In theory
> this means that there should be nothing in this list beyond the
> ports I've explicitly installed.
This theory is incorrect.
> However, I do seem to have gained autoconf, automake, gmake,
> help2man and libtool. Am I right in thinking that these were
> required for building / installing something at some point, but
> that nothing would break if I were to remove them?
I'm not sure about help2man, but for the others: yes.
The price will be having them automatically reinstalled every
time a port is built which uses them. While doing so will not take
long ... none of these is a space-hog, nor do they adversely affect
system operation. General practice is to leave them be.
Robert Huff
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