Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 15, 2015, at 15:19, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Marko Käning wrote: Last June Clemens hinted out cut_leaves [1], which you might find interesting. [1] https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2014-June/035731.html That's

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Marko Käning
Hi Carlo, On 15 Feb 2015, at 19:25 , Carlo Tambuatco oraclmas...@gmail.com wrote: $ port list leaves and inactive Especially because you searched for inactive, it should be okay to delete them. But even if you omitted inactive you could uninstall everything, yet those ports might be necessary

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On 15 Feb 2015, at 19:46 , Carlo Tambuatco wrote: So build dependencies are *always* left behind after upgrading all ports whether they are needed to run ports or not? Yes, if a dependency is installed, then it stays installed until you uninstall it. Seems like macports should have an

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
Okay, well how about something that automatically marks repeated build dependencies as requested or some other category distinguishing it as needed only for builds? Just so they aren't left wondering why you're left with 502 ports on your system when you only asked for like 20 or 30... On Sun,

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Carlo Tambuatco oraclmas...@gmail.com 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

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Feb 15, 2015, at 10:25 AM, Carlo Tambuatco oraclmas...@gmail.com wrote: If I do: $ port list leaves and inactive # port list probably doesn't do what you think: man port | less +/ list # try these: port installed leaves port installed inactive # you may be interested in port -u

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Carlo Tambuatco oraclmas...@gmail.com wrote: Just so they aren't left wondering why you're left with 502 ports on your system when you only asked for like 20 or 30... That's more likely to be library deps though, and those will get quite large for some ports.

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Marko Käning
Last June Clemens hinted out cut_leaves [1], which you might find interesting. [1] https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2014-June/035731.html ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
I thought I did a reply all...oops. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Marko Käning mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: On 15 Feb 2015, at 19:46 , Carlo Tambuatco oraclmas...@gmail.com wrote: So build dependencies are *always* left behind after upgrading all ports whether they are needed to run

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Carlo Tambuatco oraclmas...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like macports should have an option that prunes this stuff after every upgrade. It should be the port developer's responsibility to mark what is needed to run their port and have the rest deleted after every

Re: Is it generally okay to uninstall all inactive leaves?

2015-02-15 Thread Carlo Tambuatco
That's interesting...but no mention of it in the man pages. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Marko Käning mk-macpo...@techno.ms wrote: Last June Clemens hinted out cut_leaves [1], which you might find interesting. [1]