Matthew Seaman writes:
> > I use portupgrade for two features: portsclean (for which there
> > is probably a pkgng replacement, I just haven't bothered to check)
> > and pkg_sort (for which there is no alternative) which is necessary
> > for certain scripts.
>
> Well, given that pkgng is a binary package management system, it
> achieves the required aim of keeping the ports tree nice and clean by
> the simple expedient of not downloading distfiles or using the ports to
> compile them. No mess created means none to be cleared up.
Except it's not exclusively for binary packages. :-)
Portsclean's 'L' option also cleans out un-needed
libraries. Which shouldn't be necessary ... but too often is.
Robert Huff
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