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From: Eric Pretorious <eric@××××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo Linux <gentoo-ppc-user@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge clean
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 23:21:19
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0308021619240.15792-100000@black
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] emerge clean by Ruben Vandeginste
1 Thanks, Ruben. A better way though is available, though:
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3 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67849
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6 Eric P.
7 Sunnyvale, CA
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10 On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Ruben Vandeginste wrote:
11 > > The partition where I store all my distfiles (/usr/portage/distfiles/)
12 > > is filling-up as I upgrade the system. Will `emerge clean` remove the
13 > > outdated distfiles and make more room for the new distfiles?
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15 > it's ok to manually delete all files in that directory. i've never used
16 > 'emerge clean', so can't tell you what it does. upon re-emerging the same
17 > package, emerge will just download the package again if it can't find it
18 > in /usr/portage/distfiles.
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