Tentative feature request

[Matt Dawson]

On Monday 17 Oct 2011 17:01:02 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 10/17/11 9:25 AM, Matt Dawson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 	Is there an easy way to implement something akin to
> > 	pkg_cutleaves
> > 
> > on a tinderbox? I'm finding that I have all manner of cruft in my
> > builds that were once relied upon by other ports, only to fall by
> > the wayside as those ports got superseded or became orphaned.
> > Removing the leaf ports is easy; removing their then useless
> > dependencies is a adventure in SQL and much trial and error.
> > 
> > Just and idea...

Meh, dyslexic fingers. *An* idea...

> tc tbcleanup is a good thing to run after a tinderbuild.  This can
> give you a cleaner environment and recover quite a bit of disk
> space.

True and I do so, although disk space isn't my overriding concern at 
this point. What concerns me is the time taken to build unnecessary 
ports by leaving leftover dependencies in place. Something like 
pkg_cutleaves could cull the leftovers and streamline future builds by 
getting rid of, for example, libs that are no longer required.
-- 
Matt Dawson
MTD15-RIPE
matt at chronos.org.uk
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