On 3/21/06, David Armour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's still fetching it, as we speak... (tip-toeing around) i installed > the port a few weeks ago on a different install, and it required 9gb. > is there a way to find out how much space the package needs / uses? i > got the impression that the package route for large-ish installs such as > openoffice used less, but i've definitely been wrong before.
9 GB is quite excessive. That is probably 9 GB including all the unpacked source, the tarball, the left over build tree, etc, all stuff you can delete after the build completes. Still seems like too much though. Anyway, certainly the precompiled binary package will use less space. For comparison, on my Linux box openoffice.org-2.0.2 only takes about 270 MB installed. I don't know how to determine sizes and such yet on FreeBSD though, as I'm still new to it. It's probably in the Handbook or man pages. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
