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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Out of space during emerge
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 17:01:48
Message-Id: 200701081752.42564.harmgeerts@home.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Out of space during emerge by Hans-Werner Hilse
1 On Monday 08 January 2007 17:34, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:22:58 -0500 "Henk Boom" <lunarc.lists@×××××.com>
5 >
6 > wrote:
7 > > Is it unusual that I lost about 500 megabytes net in the past couple
8 > > of weeks due to upgrades?
9 >
10 > That will solely depend on your "world". Note that there might be some
11 > packages for which there's a _slotted_ new version wich gets installed
12 > at some upgrade points. A new slot means one more concurrent copy of the
13 > application in question -- e.g. gcc, which can get big!
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15 gcc is not that bad, but sys-kernel/*-sources really packs a punch.
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