How to remove inactive ports?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 7, 2010, at 20:49, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2010-02-07 19:18 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 7, 2010, at 12:10, Joshua Root wrote:
>> 
>>> There's also the example given in the man page:
>>> 
>>> port -u uninstall
>> 
>> I've suggested once before that we remove the "-u" option for
>> uninstall, since it is so disastrously dissimilar to the "-u" option
>> for upgrade, and identical to "sudo port uninstall inactive", which
>> we should recommend users use instead since it's much clearer what
>> will happen. What do you think?
> 
> I mainly agree. But I would also propose to move -u to the local flags
> and make it upgrade specific only with a new name. It would no longer be
> a global flag as it is only used by one action.
> 
> As reminder, local options are those listed after the name of the action
> with two dashes, global options are listed between 'port' and the name
> of the action being a single character starting with a single dash.
> 
> port [global options] <action> [local options] <portspec> ...

Makes sense to me that it should be a local option for the upgrade command. I just hate how this will make it longer to type, and break muscle memory for existing MacPorts users.