Uninstalling a port
Barrie Stott
zen146410 at zen.co.uk
Sat Mar 5 01:58:43 PST 2011
On 5 Mar 2011, at 05:21, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 28164-7-23 05:59 , Barrie Stott wrote:
>> I have dokuwiki installed and want to uninstall it together with all the other ports on which it depends that are not being used elsewhere.
>>
>> Will the single command 'sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents dokuwiki' do it? I looked in the port manpage and it seemed to be a bit ambiguous when it said: 'To recursively uninstall all dependents of this port, use --follow-dependents'. I don't want to uninstall anything that's used elsewhere and, while I doubt that this will happen, it seems wise to check beforehand.
>
> You want --follow-dependencies, which goes the other way. This will not
> uninstall anything that is marked as requested or has other dependents.
>
> - Josh
Where can I read about --follow-dependencies?
Barrie.
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