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Cc: herbert langhans <herbert.raimund@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Deleting the kernel source - just with #rm?
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Roland Smith writes:

>  > I just compiled a nice, slim kernel on my laptop, but I dont 
>  > want to carry all the kernel sources around there.
>  
>  Keep in mind that some ports (those that contain kernel modules)
>  require the kernel sources.

	And not just kernel modules.  The popular and useful
sysutils/lsof not only requires the source tree (or at least some
part of it), but requires the source match the running kernel.


				Robert Huff