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Date:      Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:33:43 -0800
From:      Daxbert <daxbert_news@dweebsoft.com>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, "" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: portupgrade mess
Message-ID:  <1047659623.3e720467d25ab@ra.dweebsoft.com>

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Quoting Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>:

> 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
> -- 

Ok... so why in 5.x does make.conf no longer live in /etc/defaults as well?

--daxbert


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