Uninstall a port and ONLY THAT PORT's dependencies?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Oct 4 04:00:30 UTC 2017


On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> 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.

Someone (I've forgotten who) pointed out is was likely that I installed 
them before MacPorts honoured the "requested" flag (I've had this MacBook 
for quite a few years).

Oh well, I guess I get to go through the list...

-- 
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