My /usr/portage is shared via NFS from another machine on the network, so space there isn't really a problem. Yet. Anyway, I did an eclean distfiles a couple of days ago, along with an eclean packages for all three machines on the network...
On 07/17/11 17:14, walt wrote: > On 07/17/2011 02:28 PM, James Wall wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and >>> I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in >>> /etc/make.conf looks like this: >>> >>> USE="-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight semantic-desktop >>> -kdeprefix -aqua policykit cdda vhosts automount flashblock jadetex >>> vanilla additions mplayer -evo gentoo a52 -asterisk dbus ctype session >>> zaptel ivtv -kerberos gphoto2 pcre mode-owner -firefox seamonkey >>> -mozilla candy apache2 oss -apm alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr >>> crypt cups doc encode fortran f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm -gnome >>> gstreamer -gtk -gtk2 imlib jpeg -kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg >>> ncurses nls oggvorbis pam pdf lib png ppds python -qt quicktime readline >>> -samba sasl sdl threads nntp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb X >>> xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86 imap offensive java mysql examples mmx mmx2 >>> perl divx4linux real mmxext audiofile nas snmp hal unicode guile slp >>> tidy dvd dvdr dvdread flash glut new-login browserplugin nsplugin bzip2 >>> win32codecs v4l v4l2 ruby sql lirc mythtv dvb ffmpeg userlocales php >>> -debug jack jack-tempfs portaudio bash-completion bind-mysql joystick >>> cli cgi ftp dba nptl nptlonly libclamav syslog jikes mpm-leader ithreads >>> -nautilus tcl expat" >>> >>> and I'd like to completely remove both gnome and kde (except for kpat). >>> I use xfce, so that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've tried emerge >>> -C gnome and emerge -C kde, but the gnome line only unmerged the final >>> gnome package, and the kde line didn't work at all (I'm thinking it's >>> called kde-meta now), but unmerging kde-meta only unmerged the final kde >>> package. How do I do this? >>> >>> >> >> I would recommend using emerge -p --depclean to see what can be yanked >> off automatically. since you have the gnome and kde-meta packages >> already uninstalled it should pull all the chunks out for you. > > I also use "eclean-dist -d" every week or two to delete the obsolete source > tarballs from /usr/portage/distfiles. Sometimes I free up a huge amount of > disk space that way. > > >
