On 2009-12-22, at 21:40 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Hindrichs <[email protected]> writes: > > Peter> On 2009-12-22, at 21:32 , nox wrote: > >>> A dependent of X is a port Y which depends on X. >>> A dependency of X is a port Y which X depends on. >>> > Peter> So if port Y depends on say A, B, C, what would be the correct way to > uninstall Y and its dependencies. > > Oh, so now you do want it the other way. > > In your case, "port uninstall Y" would immediately work > but you also want to remove anything that was installed > because you had also installed Y, that *nothing else* depends on.
I guess I didn't make myself clear. What I was looking to do was unistall a port that depended on several other ports, and was hoping to uninstall them all with one command. Sorry for the confusion. > > I thought you were trying to uninstall something that could > *not* be uninstalled because other things depended on it! > > Wow. Too many close words. > > -- > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 > <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> > Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. > See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
