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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:02:44
Message-Id: 20090901151130.GA5675@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles? by Xi Shen
1 Hi David,
2
3 On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:59:09PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
4 > Hi,
5 >
6 > as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
7 > packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
8 > when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
9 > any way, or any tool to help with this task?
10
11 Yes, there is a tool called eclean which will handle this. It is in the
12 gentoolkit package, so emerge gentoolkit and you should have it.
13
14 Thanks,
15
16 --
17 William Hubbs
18 gentoo accessibility team lead
19 williamh@g.o