On May 11, 2021, at 02:28, Gerben Wierda wrote: > On 11 May 2021, at 01:11, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> The port-reclaim(1) manpage and `port help reclaim` say: >> >> "port reclaim will find files that can be removed to reclaim disk space by >> uninstalling inactive ports on your system as well as unnecessary >> unrequested ports, and removing unneeded or unused installation files. The >> user is then provided interactive options for files to remove. No files are >> removed initially, until the user selects them from the provided list." > > When I wrote “man page/help of reclaim said it would not remove active > installs” I should have written “man page/help said of/about reclaim it would > not remove active installs”. I did not say ‘port help reclaim’ or man > port-reclaim’. I used the main ‘man port’. > > Where the flag is described ‘port help’ or 'man port' only says: > > reclaim > Reclaims disk space by uninstalling inactive ports and removing > unneeded installation files. > > It doesn’t mention that it removes anything but inactive ports. This is what > made me not care about lists being presented. Beside, tThe list was huge, > most of it py38 or p5 somethings. So, I trusted that statement (which turned > out to be not completely true) > > My suggestion would be to adapt the main port help.
Thanks for clarifying. I agree we should fix the wording of the main manpage.
