Subject: Re: Meta package for pkgsrc developer tools
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/05/2006 15:18:26
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 07:43:35PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Dec 25,  1:00pm, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> } On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 01:09:36AM +0900, Ryo HAYASAKA wrote:
> } > I think pkgclean and pkgfind are useful tools, too.
> } 
> } remind me, why do we have such an useless package as pkgclean in pkgsrc,
> } again?
> } 
> } (if you don't want clutter in your pkgsrc tree, mount it read-only and
> }  set WRKOBJDIR.  and when you feel like it, just wipe WRKOBJDIR clean
> }  with rm.  it's even faster!)
> 
>      cd /usr/pkgsrc && rm -r */*/work is pretty fast as well.

But not really portable.
	find /usr/pkgsrc -name work -exec rm -r {} \;
doesn't hit command line limits.

Joerg