From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 12:32:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caamora.caamora.com.au (caamora.caamora.com.au [203.7.226.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A73B137B479 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 12:32:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jlm@localhost) by caamora.caamora.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eA1KW7423943 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:32:07 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <20001102073204.E23818@caamora.com.au> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 07:32:04 +1100 From: jonathan michaels To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing "ports" package Reply-To: jonathan michaels Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG all, i run a small computer, for various reasons. i was wondering if it was possible to cut out teh chunks of teh "/usr/ports/" tree, it took some three hours to install. this machine is a i386dx33 with 8 mb dram and an esdi hard drive (345 mb). i've trageted teh language specific ports to go first, followed by most of teh x11 related stuff with a sever culling of games and more than a carefull look at whats left. is thier a special technique i would need to use or would just rm'ing teh relevent directories be sufficient (i realise i'd have to check on packages dependancies first --- is thier an easy way to do that, in freebsd v2.2-stable ?). with regards and much thanks jonathan ps, i'm not subscribed to -questions, a cc: in your responce would be apreciated. -- ============================================================== Jonathan Michaels http://www.caamora.com.au PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 suffering construction anxiety ========================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message