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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2002 17:59:22 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        I am Insane <admin@iaminsane.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]
Message-ID:  <20021105235922.GA1208@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net>
References:  <3DC8558D.2030304@iaminsane.net> <3DC859E7.8040802@iaminsane.net>

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In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said:
> That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a 
> small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it 
> usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules 
> in order to allow pop/imap-before-smtp (as I've found very little 
> information on it I've went with the one at 
> http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/  and the readme file states to install 
> the following:
>    % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::HiRes'
>    % perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Tail '
>    % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse'
>    % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Netmask'
> which is when my root file system grew from 45MB or so to over 80MB 
> (normally stays around 45 on my systems)
> So I'm trying to figure out why the CPAN modules made root jump to 
> almost double normal size and how/if there is any way to find out which 
> files are maybe source files and can be either moved and/or removed.

Using CPAN ends up creating a huge ~/.cpan cache directory in root's
home.  You can install those modules from ports/packages instead.

pkg_add -r p5-Net-Netmask p5-File-Tail p5-Time-HiRes 

Although I don't see one for Date::PArse.
 

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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