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From: Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: System maintainance, "emerge --depclean", "revdep-rebuild"
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:02:09
Message-Id: 200607190754.38580.ti.liame@email.it
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] System maintainance, "emerge --depclean", "revdep-rebuild" by "Alan E. Davis"
1 On Wednesday 19 July 2006 02:05, Alan E. Davis wrote:
2 > updates. My laptop, with only a 50GB HDD, requires to download 700GB
3 > to emerge -uDv world.
4 It's very odd... I had a common repository for four gentoo boxes,
5 (various arches) and after months of upgrade it was less than 13 GB.
6 Packages installed in main system: 1225.
7
8 > It's time to thin down.
9 It's time to rationalize :-)
10
11 I have ${DISTDIR} (see /etc/make.conf) on an external disk, common to
12 all systems.
13
14 Ciao
15 Francesco
16
17 --
18 Linux Version 2.6.17-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 8 07:47:35
19 CEST 2006
20 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4410.81 Bogomips Total
21 aemaeth
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System maintainance, "emerge --depclean", "revdep-rebuild" "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>