eridius@macports.org wrote:

Revision 34977 <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/34977> Author eridius@macports.org Date 2008-03-13 07:13:51 -0700 (Thu, 13 Mar 2008)

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Add new --recursive option to port uninstall to uninstall dependents (#14637)

I'm not quite happy with the name --recursive, because it does not imply in which direction we recurse. I would rather propose something like --with-dependents or --follow-dependents. Although this is longer, but much more clear. We were also talking about 'recursive dependencies' before, especially for 'port deps'. But in that case it was meant following dependencies, not dependents. So --recursive might really lead to confusion here. In order to provide a consistent interface, we should define two options for this. One for following dependencies and one for following dependents. (And even one for doing both?) Currently, we also have the global -R und -n flags which are only used by upgrade and -u which is used by uninstall and upgrade. In my opinion these should not be global because they are only used by one or two targets. Therefore these should use the same naming convention. Rainer