Re: Portage

Rick Altherr <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You can delete everything in /usr/portage/distfiles/.  They're just the
source tarballs.  If something needs them, they'll just be redownloaded.

Rick

On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:48, Donsbach, Jeff wrote:
> Ok, this is probably a question for a "general" list, but here goes….
> 
> The machine I've been installing Gentoo on is rather limited in disk
> space. I've noticed that as I start installing things, the Portage
> directory is growing rather quickly, thus filling up my / partition.
> What's the best way from keeping the Portage tree from growing? Can
> you limit the size of the "distfiles" directory somehow? That seems to
> be the biggest.
> 
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