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From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: Cleaning up /usr/ports
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At 1:06 PM -0600 9/2/01, FreeBSD wrote:
>Well, there are lots of ways of doing that. The formal way is:
>cd /usr/ports && make NOCLEANDEPENDS=YES distclean

or just add
NOCLEANDEPENDS=YES
to /etc/make.conf

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