On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 02:12:16PM +0200, Thorsten Fischer wrote:

> It might be part of a port system to hold copies of the source code needed to
> build libs, programs and so on, but it is certainly not neccessary to hold
> _two_ copies -- once as tarballs, once unpacked to the temp dir. And there is
> absolutely no need to keep over 400 megabytes of object files. Browsing
> through the portage.py script showed me an '--autoclean' option not mentioned
> in the installation doc. Does it work? How/where to use it?

The latest version of emerge will always do a clean *before* starting to build
a particular package; --autoclean will tell emerge to also clean up after
itself.  We may set that as the default unless MAINTAINER is set in
/etc/make.conf, which would probably be the ideal behavior for everyone.

> (btw, call me a nit-picking, but doesn't portage.py belong into the
> site-packages subdir?)

I guess I've just never gotten into the habit of using the site-packages dir.
We can always relocate our modules there if I'm breaking either FHS or python
convention by placing them in /usr/lib/python2.0.

Best Regards,

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