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Cleaning and Customizing Your FreeBSD Ports

Posted by michael on from the dust-weekly dept.

BSD Forums writes "One of FreeBSD's biggest benefits is its ports collection. It seems like magic, but a little maintenance can make it work even better for your system. Dru Lavigne explains how to keep your ports collection clean and how to customize individual ports."

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  1. portsclean by Dukebytes · · Score: 4, Informative
    Good article on this. I checked and had a pile of stuff in dist files....

    That portsclean -DC works really well! Very through, updated the database and cleaned out a bunch of stuff. It seems like everything that the BSD people do is very stable and does exactly what they say it will do.

    I really don't understand why the BSD's don't get more involvement... Maybe I just haven't been invited into that L33t crowd - yet...
    Duke

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    FreeBSD: Nothing runs like a daemon with a pitch fork.