Re: Development Environment & sources

Justin,

Thank you for clarifying that.  At this point, I am okay on drive space
and is not an issue yet.

Chuck
On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:04 -0700, Justin Patrin wrote:

> 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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