syntax for uninstalling. Can I use a regex?

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-3-1 02:21 , Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2010, at 10:07 , Joshua Root wrote:
>> On 2010-3-1 01:50 , Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>> non-active versions are stored in tarballs so you
>>> can easily swap active versions with "port activate".)
>>
>> You're conflating image mode and archive mode here I think. The default
>> is image mode on and archive mode off. (Your description may actually
>> become accurate in the future though...)
> 
> 
> "port activate" is certainly not rebuilding things when I swap the
> active version between several installed versions.  So what it is it doing?

Hardlinking. <http://guide.macports.org/#internals.images>

- Josh