Re: Development Environment & sources

On 4/20/06, Chuck Strand <[email protected]> wrote:
>  Hello everyone.
>
>  I installed the development environment on my laptop and so far all is
> working well.  My question relates to the sources directory.  Once the
> package has been downloaded, do_configure, do_compile, etc has run, can I
> delete the packages out of the sources?  I do have limited space and want to
> keep as much available as possible.
>

You can, but they're there for a reason. If you want to re-build a
package (or someone changes something in a bbfile which causes OE to
rebuilt it) then having the sources on your disk means that you don't
have to re-download them and this saves the mirrors' bandwidth.

--
Justin Patrin


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