Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 08:48:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting /usr/ports everywhere... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970307084659.5165A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <6198.857748294@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > /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. ;) True, I was thinking that it wouldn't add that much to the CDRom or other distribution, and I'm assuming that if someone selects a minimal install, they won't get the ports collection. Treat it just like the man pages and other docs.
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