Re: Portage
Rick Altherr <[email protected]>
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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. > > ---- > Jeff Donsbach > Developer Resource Center T/(978) 506-5227 > HP Partner Technical Services [email protected] > -- [email protected] mailing list