Deleting Packages

[Christian Hiris]

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On Thursday 02 December 2004 20:46, RW wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 00:33, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I's no big deal, it's just that future maintainance may redownload the
> distfiles. I don't think deleting the packages is a problem.

I remember only two "none-distributional" tasks, which will depend on local 
package-tarballs:

1. Installing via ports w/ USE_PACKAGE_DEPENDS defined.
2. portupgrade --use-packages

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