Re: Remove ports dependencies
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Remove ports dependencies
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Christopher Key typed: Hello, I recently tried to install vim from the ports collections, however I didn't do it with 'WITHOUT_X11', and accordingly it went off and installed X + presumably a whole load of dependencies which I really don't want. Is there any way to get a list of exactly what it added so that I can go and remove it cleanly? the command "pkg_deinstall -nR vim" (this command is port of the portupgrade package) will give you a list of all packages vim depends on. Removing the 'n' switch will actually upward-recursively deinstall these packages, excluding the ones that are needed by other packages. Then rebuild vim WITHOUT_X11 ;) cheers, Ruben Thanks Ruben, portupgrade contained a lot more tools that I wasn't aware of. In the end, I ripped everything out and started afresh. 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. 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? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Remove ports dependencies
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:53:39PM +0100, Christopher Key typed: > Hello, > > I recently tried to install vim from the ports collections, however I > didn't do it with 'WITHOUT_X11', and accordingly it went off and > installed X + presumably a whole load of dependencies which I really > don't want. Is there any way to get a list of exactly what it added so > that I can go and remove it cleanly? the command "pkg_deinstall -nR vim" (this command is port of the portupgrade package) will give you a list of all packages vim depends on. Removing the 'n' switch will actually upward-recursively deinstall these packages, excluding the ones that are needed by other packages. Then rebuild vim WITHOUT_X11 ;) cheers, Ruben ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
