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From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: removing distfiles?
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote:
> Hi Daemons,
> a short question:=20
>=20
> I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correc=
t?

Sure.
=20
> Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such)..

They won't. But they'll have to re-download relevent ones if you decide
to rebuild a port.

Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those distfiles
that do not belong to installed ports.

Roland
--=20
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