Forcing port reinstalls without rebuilding over and over again

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 18:28:12 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:11:35 +0100
> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 22:52:21 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> > > On 12/12/18 4:14 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> 
> > > No, you don't.  All you need are the top level ports.  Right now I
> > > have 800 ports installed.  To get those, I only install 36.
> > 
> > Yes, that way my basic idea. :-)
> 
> 	Does pkg leaf work well enough for ports based systems ?

Yes, at least, it should.

But of course it cannot deal with one problem: recognizing
something as "not needed" that has been installed as not
being a dependency of something else. ;-)


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