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Old 30th August 2011
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You are looking in the wrong place. Look in /usr/ports, not in /usr/ports/lang/php. You are looking only at scaffolding, and only a small piece of the scaffolding -- the house is elsewhere.

You will find three structures in /usr/ports consume the largest amount of disk space:

  1. Distribution files. This is the source code to your port and all of its dependencies.
  2. Package files. Those that you are building, which are exactly the same as what you will find on your nearest mirror.
  3. Object files. The code that is built as each dependency is compiled.
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Does compiling php5 really use up that much space when compiling?
You haven't started building php5 yet, you are still building its vast array of dependencies.

Please read FAQ 15.4.6. Again.
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