To add to this, many updates are released as a patch to the existing source, so again, an upgrade without the source will require it to be downloaded - again.
There are utilities (search the forums) that will clean distfiles, limiting it to only the installed sources - these usually work well. However, unless space is critical I would leave them there. Unless you are on a low cost, mega fast link having the sources already available speeds things up a lot. Alternatives are burn them to cdrom, put them on a remote nfs mount etc. BillK On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:11 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > George Roberts wrote: > > I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it > > has downloaded > > /usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although > doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if > you ever need to reinstall any of the programs you have currently installed. > -- [email protected] mailing list
