Help needed uninstalling / reinstalling ports

[Michael_google gmail_Gersten]

>> That's not what I wanted. That's still not uninstalling what I wanted,
>> and it uninstalled a bunch more that I don't know if I wanted removed
>> or not.
>
> I believe it did what you asked: it tried to uninstall various ports you
> requested, could not because it did not know which of multiple available
> versions of those ports to uninstall, proceeded despite errors because you
> used "-p", and then uninstalled inactive ports because you used "-u".
>
> The fact that we allow "-u" with "sudo port uninstall" seems weird to me. As
> Mark pointed out, "sudo port uninstall inactive" does the same thing.

Then perhaps the meaning needs to be changed.

I thought "sudo port uninstall -u" would mean: Uninstall the inactive
versions of these ports.

Not: Uninstall ALL inactive versions of ALL ports.