I have been using MacPorts for years and never knew about this.  I just ran 
this on my system and it reclaimed nearly 2GB of space, which was awesome.

Thank you so much for mentioning this!

-ranga

> On Mar 9, 2022, at 15:42, Peter West <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Have you tried
> port reclaim
> ?
> 
> —
> Peter West
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and 
> went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.”
> 
>> On 10 Mar 2022, at 9:13 am, James Secan <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I have a number of apparently old/replaced ports (p5.26-*) that have been 
>> replaced at some point by their p5.28-* updates that are still in some way 
>> “alive” on my system.  They show up when I run "port upgrade installed -u 
>> outdated” as follows:
>> 
>> Warning:  No port p5.26-xxxx found in the index
>> 
>> I’ve tried various ways to get rid of these phantoms, but nothing I’ve tried 
>> (like a simple port uninstall) is willing to admit that any p5.26-* ports 
>> are around, although a ‘port installed’ command will list all of them and 
>> note that they are active.  I am by no stretch an expert in portsmanship, so 
>> I could easily be missing some simple answer.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> Jim
>> 3222 NE 89th St
>> Seattle, WA 98115
>> (206) 430-0109
>> 
> 

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