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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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