Uninstall a port and ONLY THAT PORT's dependencies?

Carlo Tambuatco oraclmaster at gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 00:12:41 UTC 2017


> On Oct 2, 2017, at 2:24 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:
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> 2. okt. 2017 6:40 AM "Ryan Schmidt" wrote:
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> On Oct 1, 2017, at 17:35, Dave Horsfall wrote:
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> > On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > Err, I'd be wary of that on my box.  The output includes things like "xv", "aspell", "awstats", "enscript", "gdb", "groff", "gzip" etc (and that's just a start).
> 
> I don't know what to tell you. As far as MacPorts knows, you did not request the installation of those ports, and nothing you've installed declares a library or runtime dependency on them
> 
> Some ports may be installed as build dependencies. Or some ports you installed now need different dependencies than they used to. Macports won't auto-notify you when some dependencies are no longer needed, so ports may accumulate over time.
> 

Sounds like a feature request to me...


> Mojca
> 

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