On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 17:34, Scott Jones wrote:
> On 03:02 Sun 24 Aug    , Lloyd I Freese Jr wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 August 2003 02:56 am, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> > > Hello gentooers!
> > >
> > > A short question: Is it safe to wipe out contents of /var/tmp/portage
> > > directory?
> > >
> > > Quick searching in docs didnt give me an answer (perhaps that's because I'm
> > > too sleepy now).
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for answers.
> > >
> > > Dmitry.
> > 
> > 
> > Don't really know if it's offically okay but I've done it before without 
> > anything blowing up. YMMV though
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> > "It's not easy being green. It takes way more food coloring than you'd think."
> 
> I did this rm -rf /var/tmp/portage* today and i got rid of like 15 gigs of stuff 
> because of some setting in my make.conf (keepwrk,keeptemp, noclean)
> 
 
Just a thought but if your typings anything like mine it's prolly safer
to do

rm /var/tmp/portage* -rf

I have reoccuring nightmares about hitting enter after typing the first 
rm -rf / bit 

;)
cheers
drewbian


> I think it is safe rac told me how to do it on IRC
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