Attachment 199987 Details for Bug 233894 – Patch (v2), validated by igor

[patch] Patch (v2), validated by igor

improve_pkg_section_about_leaf_and_automatic_packages_v2.diff (text/plain), 2.53 KB, created by Erwan Martin on 2018-12-09 18:03:47 UTC

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>Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml
>===================================================================
>--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	(revision 52615)
>+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml	(working copy)
>@@ -627,12 +627,12 @@
>     </sect2>
> 
>     <sect2 xml:id="pkgng-autoremove">
>-      <title>Automatically Removing Leaf Dependencies</title>
>+      <title>Automatically Removing Unused Packages</title>
> 
>       <para>Removing a package may leave behind dependencies which
> 	are no longer required.  Unneeded packages that were installed
>-	as dependencies can be automatically detected and removed
>-	using:</para>
>+	as dependencies (leaf packages) can be automatically detected
>+	and removed using:</para>
> 
>       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg autoremove</userinput>
> Packages to be autoremoved:
>@@ -642,6 +642,49 @@
> 
> Proceed with autoremoval of packages [y/N]: <userinput>y</userinput>
> Deinstalling ca_root_nss-3.15.1_1... done</screen>
>+
>+      <para>Packages installed as dependencies are
>+	called <emphasis>automatic</emphasis> packages.  Non automatic
>+	packages, i.e the packages that were explicity installed not
>+	as a dependency to another package, can be listed
>+	using:</para>
>+
>+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg prime-list</userinput>
>+nginx
>+openvpn
>+sudo</screen>
>+
>+      <para><command>pkg prime-list</command> is an alias command
>+	declared in <filename>/usr/local/etc/pkg.conf</filename>.
>+	There are many others that can be used to query the package
>+	database of the system.  For instance, command
>+	<command>pkg prime-origins</command>can be used to get the
>+	origin port directory of the list mentioned above:</para>
>+
>+      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg prime-origins</userinput>
>+www/nginx
>+security/openvpn
>+security/sudo</screen>
>+
>+      <para>This list can be used to rebuild all packages
>+	installed on a system using build tools such as <package>
>+	ports-mgmt/poudriere</package> or <package>
>+	ports-mgmt/synth</package></para>
>+
>+    <para>Marking an installed package as automatic can be
>+      done using:</para>
>+
>+	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg set -A 1 devel/cmake</userinput></screen>
>+
>+      <para>Once a package is a leaf package and is marked
>+	as automatic, it gets selected by
>+	<command>pkg autoremove</command>.</para>
>+
>+      <para>Marking an installed package as NOT automatic can be
>+	done using:</para>
>+
>+	<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg set -A 0 devel/cmake</userinput></screen>
>+
>     </sect2>
> 
>     <sect2 xml:id="pkgng-backup">

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