Minimising MacPorts Internal Disk Usage

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 15, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> If you want to combine those two operations into a single command, it's:
>> 
>> sudo port -u upgrade outdated
> 
> Ah, good point. I don't recall why I had them split out like that.
> Restricting commands to single actions? Ignorance? I don't know.

I usually use -u because I don't mind fixing things when I break them with an upgrade ... however it's /really/ nice to do an upgrade and if something goes wrong, to be able to reactivate the previously installed port - so I'm glad that -u isn't the default on upgrade :)

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