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Subject: Re: ports/distfiles on FTP
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<<On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:01:40 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> said:

> We do not delete old distfiles because the space savings are marginal. 
> There is value in retaining old distfiles, because they are often still 
> needed even years later.

There is also the issue of GPL compliance for the packages
(particularly the static package sets included with releases).

-GAWollman