what can i delete from /usr

Joshua Lokken joshua.lokken at gmail.com
Wed Dec 22 08:09:20 PST 2004


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:42:58 +0000, Frank Staals <f.staals at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> goose bla wrote:
> 
> >hello,,
> >
> >please. i have not big hdd,, and i need to make free place. what can i
> >remove from /usr  and system will be OK ?
> >
> >example:
> >
> >/usr/ports/distfiles/   - i can remove all files.
> >
> >in /usr/ports i can do
> >rm -rf \*/work/
> >
> >
> >
> I bet you install your ports by doing a 'make install', if you do, you
> can probably better make an 'make install distclean' with the distclean
> option turned on, it automatically removes the ~/work/ directory's and
> the distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles/. If you want to keep your
> distfiles you can just do 'make install distclean'
                                                        ^^^^^^^
Ack!  If you want to keep your distfiles, you can just do:

# make install clean
 

-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate


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