On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:50:31PM -0700, Michael_google gmail_Gersten said: > >> That's not what I wanted. That's still not uninstalling what I wanted, > >> and it uninstalled a bunch more that I don't know if I wanted removed > >> or not. > > > > I believe it did what you asked: it tried to uninstall various ports you > > requested, could not because it did not know which of multiple available > > versions of those ports to uninstall, proceeded despite errors because you > > used "-p", and then uninstalled inactive ports because you used "-u". > > > > The fact that we allow "-u" with "sudo port uninstall" seems weird to me. As > > Mark pointed out, "sudo port uninstall inactive" does the same thing. > > Then perhaps the meaning needs to be changed. > > I thought "sudo port uninstall -u" would mean: Uninstall the inactive > versions of these ports. > > Not: Uninstall ALL inactive versions of ALL ports.
The man page does say -u uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and uninstalling Perhaps that should just say 'when upgrading'? Bryan _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users