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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
