On Aug 27, 2015, at 13:00, - <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did a :
> sudo port upgrade alpine
>
> And it appears it is trying to install countless ports completely unrelated
> to the port requested.
>
> For example it installed "lame" an audio manipulation port which has nothing
> to do with alpine an email client.
You can find out what installed ports require a given port by the command "port
rdependents".
$ port rdependents lame
alpine doesn't depend on lame, so there must be something else involved --
perhaps rebuilding broken ports as previously suggested, which is done for all
ports after installation/upgrade. (There is a message that it is doing this.)
In any case, "port upgrade" will NOT install things for no reason.
I recommend first uninstalling things you don't need and are not dependencies,
if you want to, and then upgrading everything. You can get a list of ports you
have previously asked to install with:
$ port echo requested
You can get a list of ports that are installed but neither requested by you nor
depended on by anything else with:
$ port echo leaves
or uninstall them with:
$ sudo port uninstall leaves
--
Kevin Reid <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>
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