Should I Uninstall MacPorts to Reinstall?

[James Linder]

On 22/03/2012, at 10:01 PM, macports-users-request at lists.macosforge.org wrote:

> I'm a new user, and I think this is how I ask a question.  I am downloading
> the digiKam photo application, and to do that, I was required to download
> Xcode and Macports.  I downloaded Xcode 3.0 and then I downloaded Macports.
> In the terminal, it said:
> 
> "Warning: The installed version of Xcode (3.0) is known to cause problems.
> Version 3.1.4 or later is recommended on Mac OS X 10.5."
> 
> 
> So now I have downloaded 3.1.4 Xcode.  Do I need to reinstall Macports
> because of the new Xcode version?  I am worried that during the Macports
> installation, it said that certain things being downloaded were not found
> (written in the Terminal window), and I wonder if that's because I had an
> older version of Xcode that it says causes problems.  But I'm worried that
> if I uninstall Macports, I might mess something up, especially since
> MacPorts website says uninstalling can be a drastic action.  Honestly, I
> don't really know what Macports is at the moment (should look into that).
> I just downloaded because of digiKam.  I didn't have it before, so how can
> uninstalling be drastic?  Does it have to do with the software I download
> using MacPorts?  I'd assume since I haven't made the final step of
> downloading digiKam, it would be okay to uninstlal since I haven't used
> MacPorts.  I've opened/installed it but have not used it to download
> software.
> 
> And does Xcode come with your Apple computer?  MacPorts does not?

And digiKam does not build either on macports or on fink.

James