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To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... 
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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 07:24:54 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> > /usr/ports with no distfiles is *small* - about 31MB for 810 ports
> > right now, which seems a very reasonable cost/benefit ratio to me.
> 
> > Comments?  Partially fermented fruit?
> 
> Definitely.  The tarball is much smaller than 31MB, 3.35MB as of 970304.

Well, yes, that's the gzip'd tarball.  To be useful, however,
/usr/ports needs to be extracted and that's 31MB. ;)

						Jordan