MacPorts v1.4.2 released

Emmanuel Hainry ehainry at free.fr
Tue Apr 17 02:24:55 PDT 2007


Citando Ryan Schmidt :
> 
> Perhaps you meant to clean only the *installed* ports. But I'm still
> not clear why. I think MacPorts automatically cleans each port after
> it's installed, so you really shouldn't need to clean the installed
> ports.

port automatically cleans the work (build) directory, but not the
distfiles and the archives, which port clean --all does. So it is a way
to gain some disk files as distfiles can begin to pile up if there are
frequent updates. Uninstalling inactive ports frees a lot of room too.

Emmanuel



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