[MacPorts] #28425: port says that ports depend only on themselves

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#28425: port says that ports depend only on themselves
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 Reporter:  vinc17@…             |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  High                 |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  base                 |     Version:  1.9.2                                
 Keywords:                       |        Port:                                       
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Comment(by zappaisgod@…):

 same thing happens to me with perl5.8.9_3 saying that is depending on
 perl5.
 currently I have perl5.12 installed and active, and perl5.8.9_3 inactive.
 doing a port uninstall inactive:

 {{{
 MisterX-a-k-a-PowerBook-G4:~$ sudo port -v uninstall inactive
 --->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports depend on
 it:
 --->      perl5
 Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on
 perl5.8 first.
 MisterX-a-k-a-PowerBook-G4:~$ sudo port -v uninstall perl5.8
 --->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports depend on
 it:
 --->      perl5
 Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on
 perl5.8 first.
 MisterX-a-k-a-PowerBook-G4:~$ sudo port -v uninstall perl5
 --->  Unable to uninstall perl5 5.12.3_1+perl5_12, the following ports
 depend on it:
 --->      p5-locale-gettext
 --->      help2man
 --->      autoconf
 --->      automake
 --->      glib2
 --->      p5-xml-parser
 --->      p5-getopt-long
 --->      p5-pathtools
 --->      p5-scalar-list-utils
 --->      intltool
 --->      gtk-doc
 --->      ghostscript
 --->      p5-xml-namespacesupport
 --->      p5-xml-sax
 --->      p5-xml-sax-expat
 --->      p5-xml-simple
 --->      icon-naming-utils
 --->      p5-xml-parser
 --->      p5-getopt-long
 --->      p5-pathtools
 --->      p5-scalar-list-utils
 --->      p5-locale-gettext
 --->      autoconf
 Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on
 perl5 first.
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/28425#comment:6>
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