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From: Ruben Vandeginste <Ruben.Vandeginste@××××××××××××××.be>
To: Eric Pretorious <eric@××××××××××.net>
Cc: Gentoo Linux <gentoo-ppc-user@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge clean
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 09:40:05
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0307271137480.23526-100000@eagle.cs.kuleuven.ac.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge clean by Eric Pretorious
1 > The partition where I store all my distfiles (/usr/portage/distfiles/)
2 > is filling-up as I upgrade the system. Will `emerge clean` remove the
3 > outdated distfiles and make more room for the new distfiles?
4 >
5 it's ok to manually delete all files in that directory. i've never used
6 'emerge clean', so can't tell you what it does. upon re-emerging the same
7 package, emerge will just download the package again if it can't find it
8 in /usr/portage/distfiles.
9
10 cheers,
11 Ruben
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