Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 8:37 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. But I do not remember ever seeing any types of

[gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread James
I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files other than compressed tar files in /distfiles/ Now I have (sampling):

Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 15:07:19 + (UTC), James wrote: I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. It contains everything downloaded by ebuilds. But I do not

Re: [gentoo-user] distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote: I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. But I do not remember ever seeing any types of files other than