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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:05:49
Message-Id: 443D7B48.1090302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up portage by Joshua Schmidlkofer
1 Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
2 > emerge sync cleans up after itself. Rather, rsync takes care of that,
3 > so do not expect to gain too much.
4
5 /usr/portage/distfiles will be taking up much of that 1.5GB. It's safe
6 to clean that.
7
8 > Cleanup of kernels is good, if they are portage managed than you can
9 > do something akin to this:
10 >
11 > emerge -c =gentoo-sources-<version>-<revision>
12
13 I think you mean -C
14
15 You need to manually remove the directories after, to get rid of the
16 objects and temporary files generated in compilation. Actually, you
17 should do the remove operation first, because then the unmerge is quicker.
18
19 Daniel
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