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Subject: Re: Deleting Packages
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Gerard Seibert wrote:

> I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All' 
> directory. Since I could use the disk space that they are taking up, I 
> wonder if it is permissible to just delete them. I  clean out the 
> '/usr/ports/distfiles' directory on a regular schedule without incident.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>

Check the manpage for portsclean(1), if it's on your system.

> Gerard Seibert
> gerard-seibert@rcn.com
>
> Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad 
> to worse.


Oh, don't they, though? ;-)

Kevin Kinsey