gnome2 and packages cleanup
Mario Hoerich
spambox at MHoerich.de
Mon Aug 29 00:19:07 GMT 2005
# 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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