On Sunday 02 November 2003 02:12, Dennis Freise wrote:
> > Mine has grown to >>2gb - is it safe to delete it?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Not as bad as my distfiles though, which have gone to over 5gb :\
>
> That's amazing. I have a central distfiles folder for 5 machines - and it
> never exceeds 1,1GB :) Maybe you should take a look at the files inside and
> delete old version of software tarballs. Especially look for
> gnome-packages, mysql, apache, gcc and xfree - as these tarballs tend to be
> very big. Remove any old versions you encounter, that will definitly save
> gigabytes on your harddrive :)

distclean is your friend. It removes sources of not longer installed packages. 
You can found it there:

http://www.stacken.kth.se/~foo/gentoo/

-- 
mathieu


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