XFCE4 Port Distfiles Size?

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CalvinZA

Hello,

I have constrained internet bandwidth available to me at this given time.
Therefore I would like to know approximately how much data would it require to download the distfiles before starting the download.

This is a fresh install of FreeBSD 9.0
XFCE 4.8 from the FreeBSD ports collection using the command (If I am not mistaken):
Code: 
# cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4
# make fetch-recursive
 ===> Fetching all distfiles for xfce-4.8 and dependencies

Thank you for those who can assist me.
 
There's no automated method available.

However, you can use the following to get a list of all the dependencies of a port (run in the port dir):
# make all-depends-list

Then check the distinfo file inside each of those port directories to get the SIZE in bytes for each of the files to be downloaded. And just add them together.
 
To give a bit of an idea, my distfiles contains about 4.5GB of data. But that does include a couple of big files from games/alienarena and a few other games.
 
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