I do not want to resurrect this old thread https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/16963/ ... but I have the same question.
When I troubleshoot in Gentoo I execute
What exactly happens in FreeBSD if I rebuild a dependency by hand?
When I troubleshoot in Gentoo I execute
emerge --oneshot foo
and the package will not be registered as installed by user and can be cleaned out by emerge --depclean
when the package that pulled it in is removed.What exactly happens in FreeBSD if I rebuild a dependency by hand?