Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 07:54:05 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle. Message-ID: <20060513215405.GA20439@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIEPBHGAA.fbsd@a1poweruser.com> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGIEPBHGAA.fbsd@a1poweruser.com>
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On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:28:49PM -0400, fbsd wrote: > I for one think the port/package collection has already grown to > large to handle in it's present state. I suspect you are in the minority here. > Users are consuming massive bandwidth to download and it > consumes a very large chunk of disk space. No, a snapshot of the ports tree is only about 30 Mb. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ I think you'll find cvsup's bandwidth usage is pretty minimal. Disk space is cheap. The ports tree decompresses to about 210 Mb. That's less than 0.01% of a modern ~$100 average-sized 80 Gb hard drive supplied with most desktop PCs. > Saying nothing about the wasted resources consumed to back it up > repeatedly. Unnecessary.
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