Uninstall non-active packages

[Joshua Root]

Bart Masschelein wrote:
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> Not so sweet as you mention ;-). I get
> 
> --->  Unable to uninstall perl5 5.8.8_0+darwin_9, the following ports
> depend on it:
> --->      autoconf
> --->      automake
> Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend on
> perl5 first.
> 
> I have 5.8.8_3 installed, which is the active one. When I use the -f
> option, I get:
> 
> --->  Unable to uninstall perl5 5.8.8_0+darwin_9, the following ports
> depend on it:
> --->      autoconf
> --->      automake
> Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.

This is due to the recent creation of a perl5 port, which installs the
same files as perl5.8, so only one can be active at a time. Some ports
depend on perl5.8, some on perl5, so the dependency error is most likely
correct.

- Josh