On Saturday 02 April 2005 19:48, James wrote: > I've had a quick look in the Portage docs, but can't find anything > that looks like a solution to this problem. So my question: is > there a function in Portage that allows me to delete old unpacked > source files and tarballs (e.g. emerge --[whatever]), or should I > go hunt them down in /usr/portage... and delete them 'manually'?
Yes, there is no way to make portage automatically deleting the source tarballs from /usr/portage/distfiles (this is the place where they are kept). So, you have to delete them in some other way. I use a cron job that once a week cleans up everything (in addition to /usr/portage/distfiles, there are some other places, like dirs in /var/tmp whose name I don't recall now and can't check from here). HTH -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
