Port can't be deactivated, although deps also deactivated

Scott Webster sewebster at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 14:41:23 PDT 2010


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Marko Käning <MK-MacPorts at techno.ms> wrote:
> As can be seen above the first try to deactivate kmymoney fails since there are dependent ports.
> Once the dependent port kmm_banking is deactivated one might believe that in a next step kmymoney should be deactivate-able, but this is not the case, unfortunately.
>
> Looks like one would have to use a "force"-option here… Or am I doing something wrong?

I think you need to force, so sudo port -f deactivate kmymoney

I'm not sure whether it makes sense that you are blocked from
deactivating something when it has no active dependents, but probably
this isn't too big a deal...

Scott


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