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How To Remove Unwanted/Unused Dependencies in FreeBSD pkg Command

Posted: 26 Oct 2017 03:17 AM PDT

I deleted a package using the 'pkg remove foo' command. However, it left over 30+ dependencies. Theses dependencies not needed by any other package on a FreeBSD Unix system and just taking space on my hard drive. How do I remove unwanted or unused dependencies in FreeBSD 11.x server?