How to best clean old Perl installations directories

[Rodolfo Aramayo]

Thanks
and Yes I only use the MacPorts command line

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On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Arno Hautala <arno at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Rodolfo Aramayo <raramayo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> /opt/local/lib/perl5/
>> I have the following directories:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Why where the Perl 5.12 directories not removed?
>> Is there a safe way or proper way to removed these directories?
>
> Are those directories empty?
> Do you still need any of the p5.12 ports? They wouldn't have been
> automatically removed by just installing the 5.14 versions.
>
> You should be able to see what ports are installed with:
> port installed p5.12-*
>
> You could then remove all of those, except for any that are deps of
> other installed ports with:
> port -p uninstall p5.12
>
> The '-p' should keep the uninstall going even if there are some that
> can't be removed.
>
> In general, you should only interact with MacPorts installed files
> through the port command. It's typically best to not manually cleanup
> the opt directory.
>
> --
> arno  s  hautala    /-|   arno at alum.wpi.edu
>
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