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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 21:34:58 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removing distfiles?
Message-ID:  <18973.59970.379090.475951@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090528021346.54c91917@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <20090527224351.1e94029b@bobcat.edu> <20090527205610.GA22384@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090528021346.54c91917@gumby.homeunix.com>

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RW writes:

>  Personally I much prefer the less aggressive mode (distclean -D)
>  which deletes files unreferenced by the ports tree, rather than
>  unreferenced by installed ports.

	I use "-DD".  With nearly 1000 ports on one machine, it's
important to realize many ports go months (and some years) between
updates and pain of downloading a fresh copy is minimal given a half
decent net connection.


				Robert Huff




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