Remove port

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat Jan 9 03:51:14 PST 2016


On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:35 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> 
> On 5 January 2016 at 11:05, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> 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?

According to port(1) leaves are "installed ports that are unrequested and have no dependents". So if you requested a port, it is by definition not a leaf.



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