Shouldn't old port be deleted on upgrade?

[Simon Ruderich]

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Peter Farsinsen wrote:
> 
> As for removing the 'outdated' ports. My installation is very basic, and
> even though I have more that 20 ports installed. Is there any shortcut
> for removing all outdated/inactive ports?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Peter Farsinsen

This could be done with the following command which uninstalls _all_
inactive applications.

port uninstall inactive

To prevent any problems with dependencies you could also use this, which
forces the uninstall of inactive versions.

port -f uninstall inactive

Hope this helps,
Simon

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