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Add a <tip> about removing the 'work' directories manually, which is

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much faster than calling make clean recursively.

PR:		docs/29517
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@aa.net>
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Murray Stokely 2001-09-02 10:47:56 +00:00
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<!-- <!--
The FreeBSD Documentation Project The FreeBSD Documentation Project
$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v 1.136 2001/08/11 21:34:52 jim Exp $ $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v 1.137 2001/08/16 18:35:06 chern Exp $
--> -->
<chapter id="ports"> <chapter id="ports">
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<answer> <answer>
<para>Yes, if you have installed the program and are fairly <para>Yes, if you have installed the program and are fairly
certain you will not need the source again, there is no certain you will not need the source again, there is no
point in keeping it hanging around. The best way to do point in keeping it hanging around. The surest way to do
this is:</para> this is:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports</userinput> <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cd /usr/ports</userinput>
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<para>which will go through all the ports subdirectories and <para>which will go through all the ports subdirectories and
delete everything except the skeletons for each delete everything except the skeletons for each
port.</para> port.</para>
<tip><para>It is possible to achieve the same effect without
recursively calling each makefile. For example, you
can delete all of the work subdirectories directly
with the following command:
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>find /usr/ports -depth -name work -exec rm -rf {} \;</userinput></screen></para>
</tip>
</answer> </answer>
</qandaentry> </qandaentry>