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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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