On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:11:17AM -0400, Luis Useche wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I was wondering if there is some tool that delete the packages
> specified along with their "deletable" dependencies. Deletable means
> packages that pkg_add added automatically (as dependencies of the
> installed one) and are not dependency of another package. This will
> ensure (in most of the cases) that you don't end up with a system with
> unnecessary packages.
>
> I couldn't find in pkg_delete(1) any option that implements the
> previous semantic.
I have this script:
--8<----
#!/bin/sh
pkg_info -t \
| gawk '! /^(bzip2|gawk|net-snmp|rsync|screen|tree|vim)/ {print
"pkg_delete "$1}'
--8<----
If I run it, I have a series of pkg_delete commands to remove all the
leaf packages
not excluded by the regular expression. If I see something I know I
want to keep I
modify the RE and re-run it. When I am satisfied a simple "| sh" at
the end cleans
the system up. Repeat until you see no more output.
HTH,
D.
