Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-26 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 1/26/07, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could > watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. > > Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install > dependencies a

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, but very

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Sahil Tandon
Robert Huff wrote: I use portupgrade. I've never used pkg_deinstall, but given that portupgrade gets ... confused ... occasionally I look suspiciously at anything that promises clean upward recursion. Many people prefer sysutils/portmanager over portupgrade. As usual, YMMV. -

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Robert Huff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Is there a way cleaning up automatically a messy ports collection? Like > > > portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a > > > rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by > > > another port? > > > > sysutil

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25/01/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, > I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could > watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. > > Bit sometimes I or someone else i

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Well, > I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could > watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. > > Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install > dependencies and the

Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread O. Hartmann
Well, I use portsnap and portupgrade on a regular basis and therefore I could watch very often the rebuild of ports - a nice and neat thing of FreeBSD. Bit sometimes I or someone else installs ports an they install dependencies and then he/she or I decide to kill/delete a specific port, but very o