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Luis On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Jona Joachim <j...@hcl-club.lu> wrote: > On 2011-02-19, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > > At least jeremy@ and landry@ got confused about this, so I expect more > people > > to ask. > > > > The algorithms for package updates are a bit complicated, to say the > least. > > When you update a package with shared libraries, those can get split off > > into a separate package with a .lib name (which is well known). > > FWIW, I have this ugly python script that I wrote some years ago and use > regularly: > http://www.pastie.org/1583994 > > It shows all packages which are not required by any other package and > lets you remove them recursively. It will also show .libs which are not > required anymore. I use it after every pkg_add -ui and every once in a > while to get rid of stuff I don't need anymore. > It would perhaps be interesting to reimplement it in python using the > OpenBSD::Pkg* libraries. > > Best regards, > Jona > > -- > Worse is better > Richard P. Gabriel
