Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage ?

[Rick van Hattem]

Chris Boot wrote:
Hi,
On 25 Jan 2005, at 18:09, Dave Nebinger wrote:
Feel free to whack at will (assuming there's no emerge actively running).
/var/tmp/portage is where portage builds packages; once their built and
installed the contents are not needed.
Don't whack the /var/tmp/portage directory itself, just the contents.

No, you can whack the whole directory. Probably even the whole contents 
of /var/tmp if you're careful.

-----Original Message-----
From: raptor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage ?
I see that my /var/tmp/portage is about 500 MB, can I erase its contents
or there
is something that is important there ?
tia

Chris
Indeed, as long as your not compiling (since it will be using /var/tmp/ 
then) you can remove the entire directory (/var/tmp) contents, perhaps 
even the entire directory but I'm not sure if it automatically recreates 
/var/tmp
Doing "rm -rf /var/tmp/*" won't give any problems (I did it all the time 
on my laptop, not anymore since my partition is bigger now ;))

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