On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Clemence Magnien wrote:
Anyway in my case the goal was mainly to see how much disk space
I could gain by removing unwanted packages, since I'm beginning
to fear that I will eventually run out of space. I have since
learned that this is of little use, since the .deb files are
kept in the system.
This leads me to another question: is it safe to remove everything
in /sw/src? Most of the files seemed to be gzipped tarballs, I figured
it might do no harm. But some things are directories, I don't know
if I can remove them?
Yes, you can safely remove everything in /sw/src/, it will
be redownloaded if you need it again. Any directories will
be left over from failed builds and are definitely not
needed.
If you haven't already found it, you probably want to try
"fink cleanup" -- it removes all but the latest versions of
source and deb files (man fink for more details). I use it
to keep my /sw trim and have not had problems with it
removing things I want unless for some reason I'm using an
old version of a package while waiting for a bug fix. (In
which case it removes the deb so I can't reinstall without
rebuilding the old one if I test the new version and it
fails). So I only use it after I've gotten everything fully
up to date.
cheers,
-- Viv
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Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds
http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
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