Well, I'm a grownup and willing to take these chances. I don't
play with activate/deactivate. I know of no other distros that
"wastes" that kind of disk space for that. That some wish to
use this feature, fine. But I need those gigs back.
Removing these files will very likely break your upgrade to the next
MacPorts version. The upgrade process will run a script that uses a
condition you fulfilled by removing these files to trigger more work,
which will fail because you're not actually in the situation the
script expects you to be.
You'll get to keep the pieces.
TL;DR: These files are needed. Do not remove them. Do not tamper with
MacPorts' internals.
I agree right now is a bad idea to manually nuke these files, and it
should not be done.
I also though agree with the OP its valid to question why it is really
needed, as it is a bit of a resource waste for some people.
I also think that comparing MP to *both* other OSX package managers, and
other OSes, are both valid and interesting comparisons to make.
cheers Chris
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