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If you do a: |
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du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles |
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and a |
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du -hs /usr/portage |
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You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the distfiles. |
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This is where emerge stores all the packages that it downloads when |
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installing them on your system. To decrease the size of the directory you |
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can go through it and delete older versions of packages such as: |
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I have: |
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zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 |
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zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 |
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So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I think |
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there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent bothered |
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to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since if you want to |
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reinstall or add new packages they may require files that have been already |
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downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth of redownloading them. |
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Cheers |
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Rav |
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On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in |
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> size. Is this about normal? |
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> -- |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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"When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at |
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you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus |
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Torvalds, 1995 |
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