commandline to remove a package and its dependencies

[Norberto Meijome]

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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0800
Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com> wrote:

> From: Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu at realss.com>
> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>
> Subject: commandline to remove a package and its dependencies
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:52:56 +0800
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> Organization: Real Softservice
> 
> Dear list
> 
> Stupid question again. Is there a commandline tool that I can use to
> remove a package 'wmaker', and then it will prompt me if I wish to
> remove packages that was required only by 'wmaker' and after wmaker is
> removed, become required by no other packages. Such packages existed
> only for 'wmaker' is very likely should be removed together with wmaker.

Hi Zhang,
you basically want to remove "leaves" from the package tree - install
pkg_cutleaves from ports :

pkg_cutleaves-20061113 Interactive script for deinstalling 'leaf' packages

I suggest you run it interactively, as well as creating a file with exclusions
(there are some leaves that you want to keep of course). I run it as :

[betom at ayiin] [Tue Jun 26 20:43:55 2007]
/usr/home/betom
$ cat bin/show_pkg_leaves.sh 
#!/bin/sh
pkg_cutleaves -xcl

HIH,
Beto
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