Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:43:51 -0500 From: Jeff Elkins <bsd@elkins.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles Message-ID: <200402061743.51824.bsd@elkins.org> In-Reply-To: <20040206222802.GB72712@users.munk.nu> References: <200402061721.22349.bsd@elkins.org> <20040206222802.GB72712@users.munk.nu>
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On Friday 06 February 2004 5:28 pm, Jez Hancock wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than > > insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them > > around? > > No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and > recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to reinstall a > port for some reason, the source tarball will be downloaded again to > /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the sounds of it. > > :P Thanks. I suspected I could nuke distfiles, but being a BSD newbie I wanted to check first. Jeff
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