Uninstall non-active packages

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 7, 2008, at 15:23, Bart Masschelein wrote:

> Is there a way to get a list of the non-active packages, so one  
> could do sth like sudo port uninstall <list>, or sudo port clean  
> <list>? I never use the -u option (read: I only recently discovered  
> it, and will start using it from now one ;-)), hence I have a lot  
> of non-active packages laying around.
>
> Or in short: how can I get rid of non-active packages, for which  
> new versions are already installed?

Sure:

sudo port uninstall inactive

Note that this won't quite work right in MacPorts 1.6.0: it will  
complain that you are uninstalling a dependency of another port, even  
though you're not, really -- you have newer versions active already.  
In MacPorts 1.7.0 this will work right. Until then, you need to force  
it with:

sudo port -f uninstall inactive