newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles

[Jeff Elkins]

On Friday 06 February 2004 5:28 pm, Jez Hancock wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> > I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than
> > insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them
> > around?
>
> No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and
> recreate the directory.  It just means that if you decide to reinstall a
> port for some reason, the source tarball will be downloaded again to
> /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the sounds of it.
>
> :P

Thanks. I suspected I could nuke distfiles, but being a BSD newbie I wanted to 
check first.

Jeff