Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dealing with distfiles bloat?
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:52:32
Message-Id: 20160306175217.5e863027@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] dealing with distfiles bloat? by Alan Grimes
1 On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 12:38:26 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
2
3 > I can't really read the stupid unformatted du output but it looks like I
4 > have 30 gb of bloat in some 3,600 files in my distfiles directory. is
5 > there any sane way to prune out some of the older versions, I am in no
6 > mood to spend all day hand-pruning these and the nuclear option is not
7 > too friendly to the portage servers that I want to respect.
8
9 man eclean
10
11
12 --
13 Neil Bothwick
14
15 We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million
16 typewriters will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare.
17 Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.