Re: No user or group to remove on macOS Catalina

2021-11-26 Thread André-John Mas
I would say the big benefit of MacPorts over Brew is that it feels more secure, mainly because it doesn’t do everything as an unprivileged user. André-John Sent from my phone. Envoyé depuis mon téléphone. > On 26 Nov 2021, at 19:50, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Nov 2021, Ryan Schmid

Re: What is up with perl5.26 on Snow Leo?

2021-11-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 26, 2021, at 19:45, Uli Wienands wrote: > A number of ports apparently want to install perl5.26. In this specific case > it is fricas. For reasons I cannot fathom prl5.26 fails during the destroot > phase on my system (SL, 10.6.8). > > So I try installing perl5.26 by itself; it fails wit

What is up with perl5.26 on Snow Leo?

2021-11-26 Thread Uli Wienands
A number of ports apparently want to install perl5.26. In this specific case it is fricas. For reasons I cannot fathom prl5.26 fails during the destroot phase on my system (SL, 10.6.8). So I try installing perl5.26 by itself; it fails with a message that "clang-3.7" cannot be updated. I try up

Re: No user or group to remove on macOS Catalina

2021-11-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > You're right, it's best to pick one package manager and uninstall the > other, to avoid them conflicting with one another. If you have any > feedback about ways that MacPorts could improve, please let us know. I'm not sure how I came across MacPorts, b

Re: No user or group to remove on macOS Catalina

2021-11-26 Thread chilli.names...@gmail.com
To uninstall macports entirely, I use the three commands below in a script (which I assume I got from the manual, but it's been awhile, I do not recall), but they work just as well one at a time: sudo port -vfp uninstall --follow-dependencies installed sudo port -vfp uninstall all sudo rm -r

Re: No user or group to remove on macOS Catalina

2021-11-26 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Nov 26, 2021, at 07:16, Masoud Ghaderi wrote: > Hello, > I am following the steps from > https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html to > remove mac ports from my machine (it is currently functioning but I want to > migrate to homebrew and I've heard they do not

No user or group to remove on macOS Catalina

2021-11-26 Thread Masoud Ghaderi
Hello, I am following the steps from https://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.macports.uninstalling.html to remove mac ports from my machine (it is currently functioning but I want to migrate to homebrew and I've heard they do not coexist). The second step states that I need to remove the user