Remove port

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Sat Jan 9 09:38:54 PST 2016


On 9 January 2016 at 03:51, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Ah - I didn't realize that.  a bit of a thread hijack but how would
one list ports that have zero dependents (requested or not)?



-- 
Eitan Adler


More information about the macports-users mailing list