Deleting Packages

[Gerard Seibert]

On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:21:39 PM "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:

|>Gerard Seibert wrote:
|>
|>> I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All' 
|>> directory. Since I could use the disk space that they are taking up, I 
|>> wonder if it is permissible to just delete them. I  clean out the 
|>> '/usr/ports/distfiles' directory on a regular schedule without incident.
|>>
|>> Thanks in advance!
|>>
|>>
|>
|>Check the manpage for portsclean(1), if it's on your system.
|>
|>> Gerard Seibert
|>> gerard-seibert at rcn.com
|>>
|>> Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad 
|>> to worse.
|>
|>
|>Oh, don't they, though? ;-)
|>
|>Kevin Kinsey


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Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:28:33 PM

Actually, I all ready did that. I ran 'portsclean -CDDLP', and it did
remove a few packages. However, most are still there. It is not a big
thing, I was just wondering if it would cause a problem if I did remove
them.

Thanks for your assistance.

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert at rcn.com


Murphy's First Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks.