In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said:
> That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a
> small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it
> usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules
> in order to allow pop/imap-before-smtp (as I've found very little
> information on it I've went with the one at
> http://popbsmtp.sourceforge.net/ and the readme file states to install
> the following:
> % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Time::HiRes'
> % perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::Tail '
> % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Parse'
> % perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::Netmask'
> which is when my root file system grew from 45MB or so to over 80MB
> (normally stays around 45 on my systems)
> So I'm trying to figure out why the CPAN modules made root jump to
> almost double normal size and how/if there is any way to find out which
> files are maybe source files and can be either moved and/or removed.
Using CPAN ends up creating a huge ~/.cpan cache directory in root's
home. You can install those modules from ports/packages instead.
pkg_add -r p5-Net-Netmask p5-File-Tail p5-Time-HiRes
Although I don't see one for Date::PArse.
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