On 9/28/05, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Douglas Soares de Andrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Mark and the gang !
> >
> > Em Quarta 28 Setembro 2005 00:18, Mark Rosenstand escreveu:
> > > 3. Sync option to remove package tarballs for packages not installed on 
> > > the
> > >    system.
> > >
> > >    With the current cleaning options (-c), trying out fooapp and deciding
> > > that it sucks will keep /var/cache/pacman/pkg/fooapp-1.0.pkg.tar.gz until 
> > > a
> > > new version of fooapp are in the repos. Since fooapp 1.0 sucks, I probably
> > > won't install it again, and if people tell me that 1.1 kicks ass I'll have
> > > to do a download anyway.
> >
> > I wish this too, since i really have tons of binaries.
>
> You can use the attached shell script to do it while it isn't
> implemented in pacman.
>

although AFAIK you can do pacman -Scc to clear *all*, so pacman has
it, but it must be undocumented.

what also works is

rm -rf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*

or at least, that's my preference

iphitus

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