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From: Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>
To: "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de>
Subject: Re: Deleting ports distfiles
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=D0=92 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 23:29:37 +0100
"Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:

> I have just seen that /usr/ports/distfiles has grown up to 12 GiB. My
> hopefully not too stupid question is: Can I safely delete all files
> under /usr/ports/distfiles, e.g.
>=20
> # rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/*
>=20
> I strongly suppose so but I am not sure. Thanks for any feedback.
>=20

You can clean up, but if you'll rebuild the ports that the source will
be downloaded again.
Therefore it is better to do like this: portmaster -y --clean-distfiles