On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <[email protected]> wrote:
> $> port list leaves and inactive > > is it generally okay to uninstall everything that comes up in that list? > > I know what leaves are but I'm still afraid there are some sort of hidden > run time dependencies I may not be aware of... > Inactive leaves should always be safe. Active leaves are usually safe; the biggest thing I run into isn't hidden dependencies but build dependencies that end up getting reinstalled again the next time I install/upgrade something. (oh hi autoconf :p ) Sometimes I mark those as requested just so I'm not having to track them when pruning or reinstalling them next time I do anything. That runs into the problem of upgrades to those deps though. (That said, there was a bobble a couple months ago that had an inactive py27-distribute as dependency of active Python ports. It's spurious; you can force the uninstall without breaking anything.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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