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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:14:17 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /usr/ports/ too big?
Message-ID:  <20000213201417.C17462@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <00021319283201.06543@nomad.dataplex.net>; from rkw@dataplex.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:51:01PM -0600
References:  <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <00021318141200.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000213162637.B61133@tao.thought.org> <00021319283201.06543@nomad.dataplex.net>

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:51:01PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> On the personal side, I know a number of newcomers who have been unwilling to
> give our ports system a try because they are unwilling to dedicate the
> requisite space to get started. 

Ah... and just *how* is your suggestion going to affect that?  We have
already agreed that a cvsup of the /usr/ports (not the CVS ,v files) is
the minimal amount of space we can get Ports down to.  Using "-i" you can
restrict with high granularity what to fetch.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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