Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:56:40 +0300
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: patch to have make clean not recurse in ${PORTSDIR}
Message-ID: <20020426135640.E59183@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20020424191430.W62277-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>; from DougB@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:16:48PM -0700
References: <20020424224454.GM88736@elvis.mu.org> <20020424191430.W62277-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com>
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On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:16:48PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Maxime Henrion wrote:
>=20
> > Currently, if you do a ``make clean'' in /usr/ports, it will recurse
> > through each port's dependencies and clean them too.
>=20
> This has been discussed at great length on various lists. The two
> answers to your question are, A) You can already do what you want to do,
> with an option that allows you NOT to do it if for some reason you
> actually WANT to repetitively clean dependencies, and B) The fastest way
> to clean up your ports tree is not to use make at all, it's:
>=20
> find /usr/ports -type d -name work -exec rm -r {} \;
FWIW, this could be further speeded up by -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3,
and it would be *much* cheaper on child processes if | xargs rm -rf
is used instead of the -exec.
Oh, and yes, there are many other ways to achieve the same :)
Yes, I know the door is that-a-way.. what's your point? :P
> Therefore, with all due respect, I think this patch is a step in the wrong
> direction.
G'luck,
Peter
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