On May 21, 2021, at 17:28, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2021, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> You can identify what you call zombie ports and what we call obsolete ports
>> with:
>>
>> port installed obsolete
>
> [...]
>
> is there a list somewhere of the recommended actions for the care and feeding
> of MacPorts?
>
> My schedule is on Sunday I run "port -u uninstall" and the following Monday
> "port selfupdate" and "port upgrade outdated" whilst answering the questions;
> that way I get a week before the outdated ports are removed after the updated
> ones have been installed.
>
> Is there anything else that I ought to be doing?
You might conceivably want to run "sudo port reclaim" on occasion to remove
ports and distfiles that are no longer needed. Make sure you look at the list
of ports it prints and confirm that none of them are needed by you before you
allow it to uninstall them!
