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The ports tree can grow in disk size for various reasons (new ports

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being committed, stuff being built and leaving work/ dirs behind, etc.)
Expand a bit the description of 'make clean', to clarify which case of
them all it deals with.
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<secondary>disk-space</secondary>
</indexterm>
<para>Using the ports collection will use up disk
space over time. For this reason you should always remember to clean up
space over time. Because of this tendency of the ports tree to grow in size,
after building and installing software from the ports,
you should always remember to clean up
the temporary <filename class="directory">work</filename> directories using the <command>make
<makevar>clean</makevar></command> command. This will remove
the <filename class="directory">work</filename> directory after a port has been