Going through all this Ryan. Thanks for all this! On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On May 20, 2012, at 01:03, Jasper Frumau wrote: > > > My question is. Do you think I can dump Atlas and all its dependencies? > > If you have no recollection of needing or wanting atlas (or another port), > feel free to "sudo port uninstall" it. If atlas is a dependency of > something you've installed, MacPorts will tell you so, and will prevent you > from uninstalling it. So you can feel free to "sudo port uninstall" things > you don't think you need, secure in the knowledge that it will not break > anything. > > > You may also want to use the "leaves" feature. "Leaves" are the ports > MacPorts installed as dependencies but that you didn't specifically ask > for. The opposite of "leaves" are the "requested" ports—the ones you > actually "sudo port install"ed by name. > > > You can use: > > port installed requested > > to see the ports MacPorts thinks you actually want. If there are any > listed that you don't actually want (maybe you "sudo port install"ed > something while troubleshooting a build problem) you can use: > > sudo port unsetrequested foo > > to mark the port "foo" as not something you care to have installed. > > > Similarly you can use: > > port installed leaves > > to see the ports that are installed that aren't used by any other port > that MacPorts thinks you don't care about. If there are any in the list > that you do care about, you can use: > > sudo port setrequested foo > > to mark a port "foo" as something that you want to keep arouund. > > > Finally, you can use: > > sudo port uninstall leaves > > to uninstall all the ports you don't care about that aren't required by > anything else. > > >
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