This may or may not be useful for the FreeBSD community but.... As I 'ls /var/db/pkg', I noticed a lot of ports I didn't use and that didn't have a +REQUIRED_BY file. Ports such as ezm3 and gcc-ooo that I could do without. So, what I did is a simple hack in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk so that I can run 'make deinstall-builddepends' after a port is installed, and it will ask me to remove any build dependencies. So far it works great, but I couldn't use the 'force (-f)' parameter in the deinstall target so I made a new target called interactivedeinstall. (I found out the hard way when I 'deinstall-builddepends' in cvsup and it removed my xorg-libraries...). One could improve my patch by detecting if the port is already +REQUIRED_BY another port so it would not ask to delete it. You can get the patch here: http://www.clkroot.net/FreeBSD/update/bsd.port.mk.diff All comments are welcomed, Nicolas. -- FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 19 12:36:29 EST 2005 root_at_clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc
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