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From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
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Subject: Re: make clean in usr/ports
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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:

# 
# I often make a make clean in the /usr/ports tree to clean what is remained 
# from the previous installs.
# But it is so slow...
# So I tried a more brutal :
# rm -R */*/work
# and it is a flash ...
# 
# Is there any drawback to use it instead of make clean ?

You could always use 'make NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes clean' which
is must faster than a 'make clean' and will guard against
the occasional port that does weird things in its clean
target.

-steve



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