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On Wednesday 05 November 2008 09:20:44 Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? |
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> Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains |
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> few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB ... Where other distro's like |
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> slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or Gnome . |
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Use df, du and such tools to figure it out for yourself. |
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The biggest directory is usually distfiles which contains theoriginal sources |
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portage unpacked to build the package |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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