From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 00:19:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C75316A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:19:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@MHoerich.de) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DE0C43D45 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:19:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m@MHoerich.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 29 Aug 2005 00:19:04 -0000 Received: from p548B7F03.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO localhost) [84.139.127.3] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 29 Aug 2005 02:19:04 +0200 X-Authenticated: #5114400 Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 02:19:03 +0200 From: Mario Hoerich To: Gareth Campbell Message-ID: <20050829001902.GA35976@Pandora.MHoerich.de> References: <43110F81.2000406@orcon.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43110F81.2000406@orcon.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnome2 and packages cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:19:07 -0000 # 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