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Mon Jan 19 12:08:29 PST 2015

On Monday January 19 2015 14:35:19 Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> personally, I have had to restore machines in places where connectivity was problematic before - and I size things so I have more than enough backup capacity to just back up everything and save myself the potential headaches (lessons learned over time). Your needs may be different.

I'm not saying I have only a TM backup ... ;)

> I actually prefer doing `port upgrade outdated` make sure things are working as I expect (and if not, quickly revert back with deactivate/activate) and then `port uninstall inactive`
> 
> activate/deactivate is a /really nice/ feature that MacPorts offers.

Me too, though I wouldn't mind an automatic option that leaves say the 2 latest inactive versions, except for ports on an exclusion list.

Dream on :)

R.