Opened 22 months ago
Last modified 22 months ago
#66524 closed enhancement
Autoremove macports/software not to waste space with archived duplicates — at Initial Version
Reported by: | esbugz | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | base | Version: | 2.8.0 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
After installing some ports I realized there is this huge duplicate folder containing .tbz2
archives, which from the Guide:
software Contains the compressed archives of installed software. If a port is activated its files are extracted to the ${prefix} folders from the compressed files here. port uninstall <port> <version>+<variant> would remove it from here, but then this port can not be used anymore.
So this offers no rationale why this duplication exists, nor a practical convenient solution for cleaning it. I'd like to delete all of them, but still use the ports
This old SO post https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/64074/macports-software-clean-up-opt-local-var-macports-software is similar: no rationale, no practical convenient solution
Homebrew has a command that allows you to delete the zips and it also runs the command automatically
I'd like to have something similar in MacPorts:
- ideally a config that would delete all the duplicates right away after a successful install
- a command to delete all the archives in the
software
folder manually - maybe a default of running such a command every X days or something?