On Dec 22, 2019, at 22:04, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since reclaim prints a list of the ports it will remove, it seems like it's 
> up to you to verify that there isn't anything on the list that you want to 
> keep before confirming the action, and it should not be surprising or scary 
> to you that MacPorts does then remove the ports it said it would remove if 
> you allow it to do 
> so.

No, you’re absolutely right. The scary thing is how stupid and sloppy I seem to 
be.

On the other hand, the list of ports to be removed was huge. How am I to know 
if it’s OK to remove something like popt?

> And more generally, remove anything you have in /usr/local.

Isn’t that where Homebrew installs its stuff? I prefer to use MacPorts, but 
sometimes I need something that doesn’t have a port, like avconv, growlnotify 
and others.

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