How to list all the installed packages...
Ghirai
ghirai at ghirai.com
Sat Mar 28 05:19:05 PDT 2009
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:05:04 +0700 (ICT)
Olivier Nicole <on at cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not
> required by any other package?
>
> Some thing like "pkg_info -aR" where the Required by: field is empty.
>
> Ultimately, that would give a list of "software" versus "libraries".
>
> The question arise because, while installing a new machine, I found
> out that I have help2man installed, that is not required by any other
> package, that I did not install myself, that looks unneeded to me
> (until I may need it one day). So I would remove it; and would like to
> make a list of what is removable (that I did not install, and that is
> not required).
>
> TIA,
>
> Olivier
I use pkg_rmleaves.
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Regards,
Ghirai.
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