Uninstalling a Port

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Dec 22 18:01:28 PST 2009


On 2009-12-23 12:20 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hindrichs <pth at ispnet.ca> writes:
> 
> Peter> I uninstalled the port that I wasn't using anymore, which took awhile
> Peter> as I had to uninstall all the dependencies that went with it, manually.
> Peter> My question earlier should have been with installing a port, it is
> Peter> quite easy "sudo port install "whatever" and it will do all the heavy
> Peter> lifting.
> 
> Peter> Is there no way of doing this in reverse ie. uninstalling "whatever"
> Peter> that will take care of the dependencies. ?
> 
> You mean besides "--follow-dependents"?

He said dependencies, not dependents. Probably want port_cutleaves.

- Josh


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