NAME

pkg autoremove — removes orphan packages

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

pkg autoremove is used for removing orphan packages, which were installed during dependency resolution and are no longer needed.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported by pkg autoremove:

-n, --dry-run

Dry-run mode. The list of changes to packages is always printed, but no changes are actually made.

-D, --no-scripts

If a deinstallation script exists for a given package, do not execute it.

-q, --quiet

Force quiet output.

-y, --yes

Assume yes when asked for confirmation before package autoremoval.

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg autoremove. See pkg.conf(5) for further description.

DEFAULT_ALWAYS_YES

 

ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES

 

HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS

 

PKG_DBDIR

 

FILES

See pkg.conf(5).

SEE ALSO

pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repo_create(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-script(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-key(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-repositories(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)