On Dec 18, 2008, at 03:13, Scott wrote:
Emmanuel Hainry writes:
According to the man page -f is for force mode. When uninstalling
a port
that has dependents (not dependencies), port will stop if you
don't use
the -f switch. If you force the uninstall, it will render the
dependents
unworking, but it will uninstall however.
Thank you very much. You explained it perfectly, and I understand the
logic behind protecting dependents. Also, now that I think about
it, since
a dependency-port may have multiple dependents, killing a given port's
dependencies may do unforeseen harm since that dependency may have
OTHER dependents.
You may be interested in this related discussion:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2008-December/
006576.html
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