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On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:14:21 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:

> Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in
> the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it "rdistclean". Perhaps
> this could be submitted as a PR.

There are various options in portsclean (provided by ports-mgmt/
portupgrade), but for distfiles I simply do:

sudo rm -rvf /usr/ports/distfiles/*

after my updates have finished.