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From: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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Subject: Re: /usr/ports/distfiles maintenance
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Matt Mills wrote:

> I've never resorted to that, and certainly shouldn't need to thanks to 
> portsclean. :) If I notice that free space on /usr has taken a hit, a 
> simple "portsclean -C" normally finds a large work directory that I 
> forgot about.

try setting WRKDIREPREFIX in make.conf to sth. like /usr/obj - then you
can simply rm -rf /usr/obj/usr/ports to clean out your "work" stuff ;)

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