As others have already commented, the best way to perform regular clean up on your installation is to just run
> sudo port reclaim that does a number of tasks, all designed to clean up your installation. Personally, I also occasionally run > port list requested to see the list of ports I have actively *requested* to be installed. This excludes ports just installed as dependencies of others. If there are any in that list I do not really want any longer, I then run > sudo port setunrequested <port list> on them. port reclaim will then remove these ports, if they are not required as a dep of some other one. Chris > On 4 Jan 2022, at 8:24 am, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 08:56:43AM +0700, Michael Newman via macports-users > wrote: >> I'm using the -f option because I copied it from some recommendation I read >> somewhere. I'm not smart enough to figure things like this out myself so I >> usually rely on what I find by searching. For years I just ran: >> >> sudo port selfupdate >> sudo port upgrade outdated >> >> But then I read somewhere that to remove unneeded junk I should also run: >> >> sudo port -f clean --all all >> sudo port -f uninstall inactive >> sudo port uninstall leaves >> > What I usually do, is: > > sudo port selfupdate > sudo port -u upgrade outdated > > I read quite recently in the port documentation (man port) about the > usage of that "-u" option, which does exactly what you want, that is > removing inactive ports. > > I'm not an expert; I just read every now and than chunk of the manual, > so any comment from people with more knowelge/experience is wellcome, > even just a confirmation. > -- > Mick >
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