Remove "Phantom" Ports

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Mar 10 01:56:39 UTC 2022


On Wed, 9 Mar 2022, Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote:

> I have been using MacPorts for years and never knew about this.  I just 
> ran this on my system and it reclaimed nearly 2GB of space, which was 
> awesome. Thank you so much for mentioning this!

"port reclaim" is part of the "port -u uninstall / port selfupdate / port 
upgrade outdated" sequence that you should be running on a regular basis 
to keep your MacPorts clean and shiny; I do them weekly.

-- Dave


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