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Cc: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: Sharing /usr/ports between AMD64 and I386 ok?
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Matthew D. Fuller writes:

>> > Is /usr/ports the same for AM64 and I386?
>> 
>> The FreeBSD Ports Collection is one and the same across all the
>> releases and architectures.
> 
> Just make sure you scrupulously `make clean`, or sooner or later
> you'll end up installing a dependancy on the wrong architecture.  Not
> that I've ever done such a thing, you understand...

Thanks for the hint.
This will be helpfull, specially since laptop drives are usually slower.