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Re: stupid question - what a concept: msg#00379

Subject: Re: stupid question - what a concept
Also you can delete everything in /sw/src , same idea.

"fink cleanup" does some of this for you, but only deletes obsolete debs.

-Ben


On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:17  AM, exu wrote:

ok...great, time to free up some space. thanks :-)


On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 05:19  AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

Your understanding is absolutely correct. The only reason to have them
around is to save time if you uninstall a package and later want
to reinstall it.

--
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma
Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA  02139-4213

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, exu wrote:

the .deb files in /sw/fink/10.2/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc are the pkg files fink uses once the source is compiled, correct? if so can
i safely delete these to free up disk space (it is an issue). i
understand that once i delete them i would then need to dl and compile
if i ever wanted to install again.

thanks for putting up with a newbie



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