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Should I "rm -rf /usr/ports". I mean I can barely compile that much
stuff on my puter last time when I tried to compile one of open source
it just ran out of virtual ram. I only have 24 megs of physical ram on
p5.

Don't get me wrong I used to love /usr/ports. It was the best thing
ever coming from "tar -xvzf blah.tar.gz; cd blah ; make config ;
make". It was the best thing ever. But I like to save some disk space.

I guess there must be a way to get "/usr/ports" back from sysinstall
or pkg_add. Though my sysinstall seems be broken these days but I am
happy with pkg_add now.

Any opinions?

comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here.
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...

Go ahead.  You can download the ports system as a tarball any time you
want.  You should be able to save something in the neighborhood of 30
or 40 megabytes of hard disk.

Quote:> Should I "rm -rf /usr/ports". I mean I can barely compile that much
> stuff on my puter last time when I tried to compile one of open source
> it just ran out of virtual ram. I only have 24 megs of physical ram on
> p5.

> Don't get me wrong I used to love /usr/ports. It was the best thing
> ever coming from "tar -xvzf blah.tar.gz; cd blah ; make config ;
> make". It was the best thing ever. But I like to save some disk space.

> I guess there must be a way to get "/usr/ports" back from sysinstall
> or pkg_add. Though my sysinstall seems be broken these days but I am
> happy with pkg_add now.

> Any opinions?

It wouldn't take up any 'memory' per say, but would save a little hard-drive
space.

If you're happy with pkg_add / pkg_add -r, etc.. etc.. then rm -rf
/usr/ports/ to your heart's content. :-)
You can always add it later via sysinstall, or better yet, via cvsup.
If you're low on HD space, and don't have another HD to put it on, I'd say
go for it.

That's my opinion. I love pkg_add too, especially on my P5's...

Best Regards!

It actually turn out to be over 100 Megs. That was totally worth it. =)

Most of that was in /usr/ports/distfiles, then, which you can (as I
do) clean independently of the ports system itself.