Uninstalling a Port

[Peter Hindrichs]

On 2009-12-22, at 21:40 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hindrichs <pth at ispnet.ca> writes:
> 
> Peter> On 2009-12-22, at 21:32 , nox wrote:
> 
>>> A dependent of X is a port Y which depends on X.
>>> A dependency of X is a port Y which X depends on.
>>> 
> Peter> So if port Y depends on say A, B, C, what would be the correct way to uninstall Y and its dependencies. 
> 
> Oh, so now you do want it the other way.
> 
> In your case, "port uninstall Y" would immediately work
> but you also want to remove anything that was installed
> because you had also installed Y, that *nothing else* depends on.

I guess I didn't make myself clear. What I was looking to do was unistall a port that depended on several other ports, and was hoping to uninstall them all with one command.
Sorry for the confusion. 
> 
> I thought you were trying to uninstall something that could
> *not* be uninstalled because other things depended on it!
> 
> Wow.  Too many close words.
> 
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