sudo port -f uninstall lame: DOES NOT UNINSTALL DEPENDENCIES

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 18, 2008, at 03:13, Scott wrote:

> Emmanuel Hainry writes:
>
>> According to the man page -f is for force mode. When uninstalling  
>> a port
>> that has dependents (not dependencies), port will stop if you  
>> don't use
>> the -f switch. If you force the uninstall, it will render the  
>> dependents
>> unworking, but it will uninstall however.
>
> Thank you very much.  You explained it perfectly, and I understand the
> logic behind protecting dependents.  Also, now that I think about  
> it, since
> a dependency-port may have multiple dependents, killing a given port's
> dependencies may do unforeseen harm since that dependency may have
> OTHER dependents.

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