MacPorts v1.4.2 released

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 17, 2007, at 04:24, Emmanuel Hainry wrote:

> 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.

Ahhh yes. Yes indeed.

So it would probably be better for the nhc98 port (and any others  
that do it that way) not to do a ui_msg and exit simply when an auto- 
selected variant is set. Rather, that should be moved to the pre- 
configure phase, maybe.