Re: [gentoo-user] Most important packages to save buildpkg of

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:22:08 -0600, Dale wrote:

> > You are aware that you can use eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit to
> > clean binpkgs that you no longer have installed? I tend to use it
> > with the --destructive option.

> Yea, I use that.  Some of my older systems have small drives though.  I
> even delete everything from distfiles, sometimes I have too.  :-O

Are these networked? If so put $DISTDIR (and possibly $PKGDIR) on a
shared NFS filesystem. Sharing $DISTDIR makes a lot of sense, there's no
point in keeping a separate copy of the source for each machine.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Behaviorist psychology -- pulling habits out of rats