MacPorts 2.4.0 has been released

Adam Dershowitz dersh at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jan 27 21:28:46 UTC 2017



> On Jan 27, 2017, at 4:21 PM, Daniel J. Luke <dluke at geeklair.net> wrote:
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> On Jan 27, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Adam Dershowitz <dersh at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> I have another question about another new feature.
>> Is there a way to see what port reclaim will do?  It says that it doesn’t accept any switches on the Using Macports page.  And, it could delete a lot of stuff.  Something similar to “-y” would be a nice way to see what it would do, if allowed.  Is there any way to do that?
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> It will prompt you with the option to list the things it found (and delete them or not).
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> I just ran it on a couple of machines here and it works nicely.
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> -- 
> Daniel J. Luke
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> 

Got it.  I was not comfortable running it, without knowing that.  Now, I see that it is not at irreversible, without asking first.  

Thanks,

—Adam



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