More than one version of a port installed.

[David Epstein]

David Epstein wrote:
> 
> On doing port installed, I found many examples like this:
> tcl @8.5.4_0
> tcl @8.5.5_0 (active)
> 
> The first would not allow an uninstall because of dependencies. Is there
> anyway to reasonably clean up the situation so that I end up with only one
> version (the latest) of each port? But I suppose that wouldn't work
> because some port may insist on a particular outdated version of a package
> it depends on. So what's the best one can do in this direction with not
> too much manual work?
> 
> By the way, I installed the most recent version of port, so any advice
> should be in the light of that. I enjoyed the fact that port selfupdate no
> longer produces large amounts of seemingly irrelevant output. Very nice
> and clean. Thanks so much for all the work---much appreciated.
> David
> 
> 

I did further cleaning up of my Macports files, and these annoying
duplicates went away. So maybe my original question is a non-question, or
maybe the situation I described is occasionally possible.
David
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