> On Nov 19, 2016, at 7:52 PM, Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> Doing my weekly "port -u uninstall", I get:
>
> ---> Unable to uninstall p5.22-specio @0.280.0_0, the following ports depend
> on it:
> ---> p5.22-datetime-locale @1.80.0_0
> ---> p5.22-datetime-timezone @2.50.0_0
> Error: org.macports.uninstall for port p5.22-specio returned: Please
> uninstall the ports that depend on p5.22-specio first.
>
> Shouldn't those dependencies have been uninstalled for me?
(a) You mean dependents.
(b) No, MacPorts does not automatically uninstall either dependencies or
dependents. You have to tell it to explicitly do so:
sudo port uninstall --follow-dependencies foo
sudo port uninstall --follow-dependents foo
vq
