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From: "Graham North" <graham.north@telus.net>
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Subject: Pruning the Ports Tree 
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Is it alright to prune the Ports tree - and still do updates later.

I am running 4.8 stable and recently did a full Ports tree update using =
CVSUP.   This generates several questions.
1) I took the advice of Michael Urban's book and upgraded from the =
"Head" of the source tree rather than from that for 4.8 - did I really =
want to do that?  Does it matter for a Ports only updating?
2) The tree is getting pretty big - result, lots of files.   My hard =
drive is not very big - it is down to a few hundred inodes (file =
handles) within the usr directory.   Can I prune the tree on my hard =
drive without compromising future updates?  If it helps, my machine is =
not using X only command mode so there are lots of Ports that will never =
be made.

Thanks for any help that can be offered.

Graham/