Minimising MacPorts Internal Disk Usage

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 15, 2013, at 03:33, Chris Jones wrote:

> Before you start messing around like this, have you first made sure you don't have a lot of unwanted stuff lying around you don't need.
> 
> sudo port list inactive
> 
> will show packages updated, but not active. Usually the result of an update, which doesn't completely remove the old versions. You need to run
> 
> sudo port uninstall inactive
> 
> to do that

"port list" doesn't do what you think it does:

https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#portlist

You want "port installed inactive" instead.

There's no need to use "sudo" either, since you're just showing a list of ports, not modifying any files on disk.