Re: emerge command

as for the /var/tmp/portage/, theres usually not many files
in each directory ... and i think theres an option for it ...
--autoclean in 'emerge --help' ...
ummmmmmm try this :)
`env FEATURES=sandbox emerge gnome`
-mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vito Sansevero" <[email protected]>
To: "Vito Sansevero" <[email protected]>
Cc: "mike" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:26
Subject: Re: [gentoo-newbies] emerge command


> Okay I rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*  
> 
> I now run emerge gnome 
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> >>> emerge gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1 to /
> >>> Unpacking source...
> >>> Source unpacked.
> 
> >>> Install gnome-2.0.1 into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.0.1/image/
> category gnome-base
> strip:
> >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gnome-2.0.1/image/
> 
> >>> Merging gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1 to /
> 
>  * note that to change windowmanager to metacity do: 
>  *  export WINDOW_MANAGER="/usr/bin/metacity"
>  * of course this works for all other window managers as well
> >>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
> >>> gnome-base/gnome-2.0.1 merged.
> >>> Auto-cleaning packages ...
> 
> >>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
> 
> 
>  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
> 
> I look in /var/tmp/portage and the gnome dir is recreated. 
> 
> This is really getting weird. 
> 
> 
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