Remove all ports

Bill Hernandez ms at mac-specialist.com
Fri Sep 14 06:06:42 PDT 2007


On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:18 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> The default MacPorts prefix is *not* /opt, it is "/opt/local".
>
> If you delete the entire /opt, you risk throwing away other
> third-party software that (rightfully) gets installed there...
> (nothing by Apple though, in a clean Mac OS X / Xcode install)
> Both of /usr/local and /opt are traditional install locations.
>
> So while removing /opt also "works", it's safer using /opt/local.
>
> --anders

GOOD POINT !

You are absolutely correct, that's why I asked him to make sure  
nothing else was installed there...

 >> I don't know if you've installed anything other than MacPorts in / 
opt but if you have not,
 >> you could probably delete everything in the /opt directory.

I should have said :

 >> I don't know if you've installed anything other than MacPorts in / 
opt/local but if you have not,
 >> you could probably delete everything in the /opt/local directory.

In my case there's nothing else in /opt other than MacPorts

Best Regards,

Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas


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