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Date:      Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:43:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make clean in usr/ports
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9910021438120.16139-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991002081851.01741530@194.184.65.4>

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On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote:

# 
# I often make a make clean in the /usr/ports tree to clean what is remained 
# from the previous installs.
# But it is so slow...
# So I tried a more brutal :
# rm -R */*/work
# and it is a flash ...
# 
# Is there any drawback to use it instead of make clean ?

You could always use 'make NOCLEANDEPENDS=yes clean' which
is must faster than a 'make clean' and will guard against
the occasional port that does weird things in its clean
target.

-steve



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