how to delete deactivated ports

[paul beard]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:04 PM, J P Lewis <noisebrain at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> (a novice question)
>
> I installed a package (py25-matplotlib), had some trouble with using it,
> then did a port selfupdate,
>
> then upgraded the package.   In the process, a number of packages were
> deactivated.
>
> For example, it looks like I now have two copies of python25, numpy,
> 3 copies of libpng, etc.
>
> How can I uninstall these now (to clean up and save disk space)?
>
> For example
>     port uninstall python25 @2.5.1_2+darwin_8
> says that I cannot uninstall this (deactivated) python because other
> things
> depend on it.
>
> Most of those things are things that I'm actively using (py-readline for
> example).
>
> should I uninstall and reinstall all of these?   If so, it seems like
> upgrading is a bad
> strategy, one can save work by uninstalling and reinstalling?
>

port -f uninstall inactive should do it.

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Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
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