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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:16:08 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1048090569.886db9@mired.org>
To:        Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>
Cc:        Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, "" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade mess
Message-ID:  <15986.72.669510.296381@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <1047613811.3e715173c05c0@ra.dweebsoft.com>
References:  <1047613811.3e715173c05c0@ra.dweebsoft.com>

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In <1047613811.3e715173c05c0@ra.dweebsoft.com>, Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com> typed:
> Quoting Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>:
> > > BTW, any idea how I could reduce the size of the /usr/ports slice - it's 
> > > max is about 2Gb and there is about 1.7 in use. It seems a bit bloated and
> > > I certainly don't need all the stuff that is in there...
> > Delete everything in "/usr/ports/distfiles".
> > And before you go to bed one night do a "make clean" from "/usr/ports".
> > It takes .... some time...
> Another option is to add the following to your make.conf
> ( 5.x: /etc/make.conf  4.x: /etc/defaults/make.conf )

No! 4.x is /etc/make.conf as well. It just doesn't have one by
default, whereas 5.x does. You should *never* edit anything in
/etc/defaults.

	<mike
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