Thread: BSD sizes
View Single Post
Old 27th June 2008
s0xxx's Avatar
s0xxx s0xxx is offline
Package Pilot
 
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 192
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by JMJ_coder View Post
My total system (with packages such as - tcsh; vim; mutt; mc; perl; php; python; vorbis-tools; etc.) is 842MB. I could delete pkgsrc (I don't need to get any more packages at this time) and get it down to 434MB.
Or just use binary instead of source packages and there is no need for full pkgsrc if space is a deal.

FreeBSD has a tool called misc/porteasy, I don't know if other have similar tools for installing ports (source packages that is) without actually getting the ports tree?
Reply With Quote