<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div>On Dec 22, 2019, at 22:04, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="font-family: Courier;" class="">Since reclaim prints a list of the ports it will remove, it seems like it's up to you to verify that there isn't anything on the list that you want to keep before confirming the action, and it should not be surprising or scary to you that MacPorts does then remove the ports it said it would remove if you allow it to do </span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">so.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">No, you’re absolutely right. The scary thing is how stupid and sloppy I seem to be.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other hand, the list of ports to be removed was huge. How am I to know if it’s OK to remove something like popt?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Courier;" class="">And more generally, remove anything you have in /usr/local.</span></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Isn’t that where Homebrew installs its stuff? I prefer to use MacPorts, but sometimes I need something that doesn’t have a port, like avconv, growlnotify and others.</div></body></html>