[Bug 247430] Linux ports install too much

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247430

            Bug ID: 247430
           Summary: Linux ports install too much
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: emulation at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: mi at FreeBSD.org

Most of the linux-c7-* ports download too much:
 a) both 64- and 32-bit RPMs;
 b) Source RPMs.

There may be a use case for a), but it should be possible to not install 32-bit
Linux libraries on amd64. Indeed, it should, probably, be the default -- as it
is on the actual RHEL7/CentOS7 systems already.

The b) seems outright bizarre -- why? GPL compliance? But everything with a
linux-c7-* port on FreeBSD, that has sources publicly available, also has a
native FreeBSD port, which downloads those sources (in a format more convenient
than SRPM too).

Why waste so much space -- and bandwidth -- on these?

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