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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:55:54 -0600 (MDT)
From: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com>
To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <mekanix@privat.dk>,
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Subject: Re: Cleaning up /usr/ports
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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> 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

Which wouldn't be good if you are used to doing make install distclean to
install a port, leaving all dependencies uncleaned.

>
> --
> Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
>
>


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