port -u upgrade outdated

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Oct 3, 2007, at 9:19 PM, Paul Phillips wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 01:54:43AM +0200, Thomas De Contes wrote:
>>  there is still a minor problem : waste of disk space
>>  since each old version remains on the disk, whereas they are  
>> completely
>>  useless :-/
>>
>>  do you see what i mean ?
>
> I deal with this by running this inelegant alias once in a while:
>
>   alias portclean="sudo port installed|grep -v active|grep -v
>   following|xargs -L 1 sudo port -f uninstall"
>
> It uninstalls all inactive ports.  Don't use it if that's not what  
> you want.

Why not just:

sudo port -f uninstall inactive

?
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