Have I misunderstood what leaves are?

Lawrence Velázquez larry.velazquez at gmail.com
Thu Jun 28 08:24:11 PDT 2012


On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:18 a.m., Brandon Allbery wrote:

> A leaf is an *unrequested* port without dependents, i.e. the unwanted dependencies left behind when you remove a port that you explicitly installed (and hence had the requested flag set).

And a port is requested if you did "port install foo" or "port setrequested foo". Otherwise it's unrequested.

vq



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