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Hi All,

I'm about to commit print/texlive ports (PR/171571). One of it's ports
(print/texlive-texmf) has size approx. 1.4 Gb.

What is the current policy upon huge ports? Should I restrict someting
to not build at, say, pointyhat? Something else?

Thanks!
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WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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