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To: Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: Consequences of Deleting Sources]
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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
Date: 20 Aug 2002 10:22:30 -0400
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Parker Brown <phbrown@charter.net> writes:

> If I deleted /usr/src/contrib, would I have problems down the line
> installing ports?

No.

>                    And since I'm not really interested in X11 sources,
> could I safely delete those, too, especially since most of the packages
> & ports I'm interested in must run under X11?

You don't need the X sources to build programs that run under X.  

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