More than one version of a port installed.

[David Epstein]

Joshua Root-8 wrote:
> 
> 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 some port may insist on a particular outdated version of a package it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?
> 
> The incorrect complaining about dependents is fixed in MacPorts 1.7.
> Ports can't currently depend on particular versions of other ports, so
> you should be able to remove the old version with:
> 
> sudo port uninstall tcl @8.5.4_0
> 
> or, to remove all inactive versions:
> 
> sudo port uninstall inactive
> 
> - Josh
> 

Great!! I wondered why I suddenly stopped getting those error messages.
Thanks again.
D
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