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I just found out I got about 500 MB out of just one package (Qt 4) being duplicated on MacPorts. Or at least I think so. I couldn't find any hardlinks in there, and I'm wondering if I can safely delete the /opt/local/var/macports/software/qt4-mac/
. I'll probably just do it and see what happens, but this whole thing also got me wondering about MacPorts...
Why did that package got duplicated in the first place? How should I manage other packages in it? I've got a lot of software in there, and I don't recall having installed that many. And why on old nabble were both guys talking about hardlinks?
Thank you for trying to help!
port list inactive
brings nothing, though they're all inactive as far as I've been using them this year. I've tried that cleaning too but, after hundreds lines of verbose output, it didn't seem to make much effect.qt4-mac
is still duplicated in the same place and same version, as it was before. I really know almost nothing about macports, as you may have guessed, so maybe the best advice would be learning more about it... would it? I was just hoping I could get around this apparently small issue easily. – cregox – 2011-07-24T23:36:51.383@cawas You can use "port provides" to find out which port installed a file (not a folder, so just select a file within it) – SystematicFrank – 2011-07-30T17:47:19.020
You should not use
port list
to display information about ports on your computer, only to browse available ports; particularly,port list
always displays the latest version, not the installed version. Instead, useport echo
, which shows the actual version and variant installed. – Kevin Reid – 2011-11-14T14:17:02.707