On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 12:50 +0530 schrieb Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan > > Neomal: > > Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? > > Yes: /var/db/pkg (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS)
no, that is just a LIST. . > > > Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains > > few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB … Where other distro’s like > > slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or > > Gnome . > > Then: Gentoo installs (in binary distros terms) all "*-dev" packages > (all libs and headers), as it needs this for compiling - that blows the > system a lot. a bit ;) but yes. > In my system (GNOME, lots of servers, development software) the > installed package DB (/var/db/pkg) is about 200 MB. > The portage tree (/usr/portage) is about 500 MB for everybody... > > > Where should I look for information … > > * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes. > * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are > distributed on your disk. and don't forget that du is lying - a lot.
