> On trimming FreeBSD Ports tree, I don't see the point, you can just ignore the stuff that you don't use, trimming is just extra work.
Because it's extra dependencies to carry around and inodes. Space is at a premium, and a few GB can make a huge difference, as can a few tens of thousands of inodes. Inodes are especially an issue for IRIX due to older XFS.
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https://contrib.irixnet.org/raion/ -- contributions and pieces that I'm working on currently.
https://codeberg.org/SolusRaion -- Code repos I control
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