Clean up all inactive MacPorts package

Today I cleaned up all packages that MacPorts leaves behind, i.e. older package versions that not active yet installed. This is as easy as executing the following from a shell:

for file in `port installed | grep -v active | sed -e "s/ //g"` ; do sudo port uninstall $file ; done

and typing your password. Not that bad for recovering almost 1GB in my root partition.

By the same token, you can get rid of all files created when building like this:

for file in `port installed | sed -e "s/^ *\([^ ]*\) .*/\1/"` ; do sudo port clean --all $file ; done

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