Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:19:03 +0200 From: Mario Hoerich <spambox@MHoerich.de> To: Gareth Campbell <gcampbell@orcon.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome2 and packages cleanup Message-ID: <20050829001902.GA35976@Pandora.MHoerich.de> In-Reply-To: <43110F81.2000406@orcon.net.nz> References: <43110F81.2000406@orcon.net.nz>
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# Gareth Campbell: > I was installing gnome2 from the ports collection (on dial-up!) and it > took like 3 days of constant work when it finally ran out of space on my > /usr drive (only using a 6.4gig). I thought this would be more than > enough, but alas... Did you run a 'make clean' in between? During the build process, the work-directories are _not_ removed and they tend to eat up quite a lot of space. The whole gnome probably isn't more than 300M installed (if that). HTH, Mario
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