JoeSmith <JoeSmith@IDontWantSpam.bogus.bogusaddress.com> wrote in message news:<wSjBc.75718$fX.14958@newssvr29.news.prodigy. com>...
> I ran out of diskspace when making kde. Can anybody give me a hint as
> to how much diskspace would be recommended for the ports directory tree?

A LOT I had made my /usr partition 10GB thinking it would be
plenty. Well, it was enough, but I had to temporarily move the src
tree and a ton of other crap over to /home make room during the build
process :\

Last time I had used KDE (about 4 years ago or so) it wasn't nearly
this huge and bloated.. Prolly would run like crap on my OpenBSD box
anyhow.

> Fred wrote:
> > Comes as no surprise. Took me more than that On a P3 1Ghz
> > machine on a cable connection.. KDE is massive, and has another
> > 500 million dependencies to resolve/install
> >

I only was building KDE on a whim, since I hadn't used it in so long.
4 days later (on a PII 350Mhz w/ 192MB RAM) it was still compiling
crap, so I gave up and went back to blackbox (which I'm writing this
from now)

Had bb up and running in a few minutes.