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On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote: |
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> Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 12:50 +0530 schrieb Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan |
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> Neomal: |
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> > Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? |
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> Yes: /var/db/pkg (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS) |
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no, that is just a LIST. |
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> > Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains |
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> > few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB … Where other distro’s like |
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> > slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or |
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> > Gnome . |
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> Then: Gentoo installs (in binary distros terms) all "*-dev" packages |
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> (all libs and headers), as it needs this for compiling - that blows the |
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> system a lot. |
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a bit ;) but yes. |
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> In my system (GNOME, lots of servers, development software) the |
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> installed package DB (/var/db/pkg) is about 200 MB. |
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> The portage tree (/usr/portage) is about 500 MB for everybody... |
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> > Where should I look for information … |
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> * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes. |
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> * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are |
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> distributed on your disk. |
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and don't forget that du is lying - a lot. |
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