Remove port

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Fri Jan 8 21:35:45 PST 2016


On 5 January 2016 at 11:05, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:00 PM, PhilDobbin wrote:
>
>> Can someone refresh my memory on how to totally uninstall a port?
>
> If the port is named "foo", you would run:
>
> sudo port uninstall foo
>
> This does not uninstall any dependencies that might have been installed for the port. If you're interested in removing those dependencies that are no longer needed, examine the list of ports produced by:
>
> port installed leaves
>
> and, if you like, uninstall them with:
>
> sudo port uninstall leaves

wouldn't
port uninstall leaves and unrequested
be slightly better here since some leaf ports are actually wanted?



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