With limited disk space (120 meg hard drive on PowerBook160), I still
hope to do minor compilation.  The resulting disk-space questions are
perhaps not port-specific, but there may be port-specific answers....

Am I right that the installers are not much more clever than "tar -zxf
xserver.tgz"?

For deinstallation, is it appropriate to write a script to delete
everything not a non-empty directory in the output of "tar -ztf
xserver.tgz"?

For partial installation, must I resort to trial and error to get a
reasonably stable `subset' of comp.tgz?  (Presumably it is safe to
remove the man pages and so on, but I would like to remove a lot of
headers, libraries, etc.)

-- 
John