At 11:20 PM -0500 5/30/02, Darryl Zurn wrote: >I have been using Fink for some time, installing lots of neat things >from 'curses' to 'XDarwin' and XFree86, and it's been a great tool! >I'm looking forward to KDE and GNOME as well. > >So now I need to reclaim some of the space on my OS X partition, >which is where the /sw directory is. I ran out of space when >installing XFree86, so I really need to move some stuff to a >partition with more room. (I did finally get XFree86 to install, but >I had to move other stuff around and wait *hours* for the compile!) > >What parts of Fink's sources can I get rid of or move to another >directory? Was there some way to change the configuration to allow >using a different directory, or can I just delete some of the >large-ish packages in /sw/src?
(is this in the FAQ? perhaps it should be?) You can delete _everything_ from /sw/src. The stuff there is only needed at build time. The only drawback would be that if you needed to build something you already had again from source, you would have to redownload it. Likewise, you can delete all *.deb files in your /sw heirarchy without ill effect, other than possibly needing to rebuild things later. They don't affect anything at runtime. In the future there will be some sort of "fink clean" command to help you with this. -Ben -- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/ _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
