Remove unused ports with portmaster, but keep build dependencies

[dehrmann]

I started cleaning up unused ports with portmaster -s, but the first one it wanted to uninstall is asciidoc. It was automatically installed, but it's a build dependency for a lot of my ports. How can I remove unused ports but keep build dependency ports?

 

[SirDice]

Set that specific port as "non-automatic", then pkg-autoremove(8) won't remove it any more. See pkg-set(8).

 

[dehrmann]

Set that specific port as "non-automatic", then pkg-autoremove(8) won't remove it any more. See pkg-set(8).

But then they won't get removed when the port that builds with them is deleted.

 

[VladiBG]

What do you understand as "unused port" for you?

 

[Charlie_]

Adding BUILD_DEPENDS to RUN_DEPENDS in the Makefile before building will give you the desired behavior.
I don't know if there is an easy way to do this.