<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oraclmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">oraclmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>$> port list leaves and inactive</div><div><br></div><div>is it generally okay to uninstall everything that comes up in that list?</div><div><br></div><div>I know what leaves are but I'm still afraid there are some sort of hidden run time dependencies I may not be aware of...</div></div>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>Inactive leaves should always be safe. Active leaves are usually safe; the biggest thing I run into isn't hidden dependencies but build dependencies that end up getting reinstalled again the next time I install/upgrade something. (oh hi autoconf :p )</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sometimes I mark those as requested just so I'm not having to track them when pruning or reinstalling them next time I do anything. That runs into the problem of upgrades to those deps though.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(That said, there was a bobble a couple months ago that had an inactive py27-distribute as dependency of active Python ports. It's spurious; you can force the uninstall without breaking anything.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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