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On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 07:59, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote: |
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> > My thought is rather than remove the distfiles for the version you are |
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> > building, remove the distfiles for versions that have just been |
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> > uninstalled by clean or update (granted they aren't being used by the new |
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> > version as well). This way you only have the distfiles for what's |
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> > currently on your system. |
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> I agree. I have a lot of files that should go to Trash in my distfiles. |
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> I have to remove them by hand. why keep |
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> package_v1.0.tbz2 |
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> package_v1.1.tbz2 |
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> package_v1.2.tbz2 |
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> package_v1.3.tbz2 |
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> where package_v1.3.tbz2 will only be used (not for packages with |
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> patches). |
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I don't remember where I got this, so I cannot give credit to the |
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person, but I find this is a great tool for removing distfiles for |
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packages you no longer have installed. |
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It is also in python, so portage integration could be a possibility. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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