removing distfiles?

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Thu May 28 01:35:00 UTC 2009


RW writes:

>  Personally I much prefer the less aggressive mode (distclean -D)
>  which deletes files unreferenced by the ports tree, rather than
>  unreferenced by installed ports.

	I use "-DD".  With nearly 1000 ports on one machine, it's
important to realize many ports go months (and some years) between
updates and pain of downloading a fresh copy is minimal given a half
decent net connection.


				Robert Huff



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