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herbert langhans writes:

>  I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct?
>  
>  Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such)..

	If you want to be selective, try "portsclean" which is part of
portupgrade(-*).


				Robert Huff