Topic: Safe to remove old LLVM (and other old packages)?
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Greetings. I am preparing an iRedMail system for its monthly check of ports to upgrade. Since this system runs FreeBSD, ports are compiled and that can be time-consuming. I have two questions on which older ports are safe to uninstall.
This system has two versions of llvm installed: llvm39 and llvm40. The command 'pkg autoremove' (similar to 'apt-get autoremove' on Debian) indicates llvm39 is no longer needed. Is it safe to uninstall the older version? Doing so will significantly reduce port compile time.
Similar question: Is it safe to remove *all* the following ports, which 'pkg autoremove' indicates are not needed?
Thanks.
$ sudo pkg autoremove
Updating database digests format: 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 68 packages:
Installed packages to be REMOVED:
adns-1.5.1
automake-1.15_1
autoconf-2.69_1
autoconf-wrapper-20131203
automake-wrapper-20131203
bdftopcf-1.0.5
bigreqsproto-1.1.2
binutils-2.28,1
bison-3.0.4,1
py27-sphinx-1.4.8,1
cmake-3.8.0
cmake-modules-3.8.0
dri3proto-1.0
fakeroot-1.20.2_1
libXfont-1.5.2,2
fontsproto-2.1.3,1
gawk-4.1.4
gettext-tools-0.19.8.1
gmake-4.2.1_1
gobject-introspection-1.50.0,1
help2man-1.47.4
inputproto-2.3.2
intltool-0.51.0_1
jsoncpp-1.8.0_2
libarchive-3.3.1,1
libclc-0.3.0.20170225
libdevq-0.0.4
llvm39-3.9.1_4
libsigsegv-2.11
libtool-2.4.6
libuv-1.11.0
scons-2.5.1
m4-1.4.18,1
makedepend-1.0.5,1
mpfr-3.1.5_1
nasm-2.11.08_1,1
ninja-1.7.2,2
p5-CPAN-Meta-2.150010
p5-Canary-Stability-2012
p5-Devel-CheckLib-1.07
p5-IO-CaptureOutput-1.11.02_1
p5-JSON-PP-2.27400
p5-Locale-gettext-1.07
p5-Module-Build-0.4222
p5-Test-NoWarnings-1.04_2
p5-XML-Parser-2.44
patch-2.7.5
pkgconf-1.3.5,1
presentproto-1.1
py27-alabaster-0.7.6
py27-docutils-0.13.1
py27-enum34-1.1.6
py27-imagesize-0.7.1
py27-pygments-2.2.0
py27-snowballstemmer-1.2.0_1
py27-pystemmer-1.3.0_1
xml2rfc-2.5.1
py27-requests-2.11.1
py27-six-1.10.0
py27-sphinx_rtd_theme-0.2.2
rhash-1.3.4
swig13-1.3.40_1
texinfo-6.1.20160425_1,1
xcb-proto-1.12
xcmiscproto-1.2.2
xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0
xorg-macros-1.19.1
xtrans-1.3.5
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