Uninstalling a port

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Sat Mar 5 03:43:39 PST 2011


On 2011-3-5 20:58 , Barrie Stott wrote:
> 
> 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?

The Guide, now:
<http://guide.macports.org/chunked/using.html#using.port.uninstall>

- Josh


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