[123964] trunk/base/doc

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Sep 13 21:03:14 PDT 2014


> On Aug 16, 2014, at 12:00 PM, cal at macports.org wrote:
> 
> Revision
> 123964
> Author
> cal at macports.org
> Date
> 2014-08-16 10:00:05 -0700 (Sat, 16 Aug 2014)
> Log Message
> 
> base: document port rdependents (in port-dependents.1), #44530
> Modified Paths
> 
> 	• trunk/base/doc/port-dependents.1.txt

> +The dependency relations printed by *port dependents* and *port rdependents* are
> +the same that are used to determine if a port can be safely uninstalled. Ports
> +that still have dependents installed cannot be uninstalled without either the

This has changed now with the GSoC 2014 interactive features merged in. If you try to uninstall a port that has dependents, you'll be prompted whether you want to proceed, unless you use the non-interactive flag "-N" in which case it works the way you described above.



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