Re: Cleaning up after installing packages

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:48:32AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> So could installing a package and subsequent cleaning be done in one
> fell swoop with?:
> 
> # make install clean clean-depends distclean

The short answer is yes.

The long asnwer is kind of, though it's more correct to call make twice
as follows:

# make install && make clean clean-depends distclean;

Which won't remove your distfiles in the event that the build fails, and
for some reason I think that combining clean and build targets in a single
make command is bad practice (though I can't recall why).

I personally find it handy to keep my distfiles around until they're no
longer required by any packages in the tree. You can use the -r option to
lintpksrc(1) (from pkgtools/pkglint) to do this for you.

J.

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Jason V. Miller