Hello folks :)
I hope this is on topic...
I have gentoo running on my main system, and unfortunately when I set it
up I underestimated how much space I'd need on the root drive... (it's
only a 60Gb HDD but I do have an 80Gb in there as well, and a 160Gb I
can use when I have cleaned up the mess of backups strewn across
it!;)... anyway, my question is - gentoo's /usr/portage system is very
large (ie gigabytes). I haven't ever told it to clean up the source
files or anything like that, and I was wondering whether any of the
following were possible:
1. tell it to use a different partition for the portage tree
(not really necessary since if I really wanted to do that I could just
move the entire contents to that partition and mount it on /usr/portage,
but would be good if it existed as an option).
2. tell it to clean up my portage tree (not the besst option since with
around 2.2Gb of data downloaded from the net it'd be nice to preserve it
somehow in case I ever needed it again).
3. slim down the ports system? ie do I really need every single version
of every port available? or do I just need one in each
category/directory?...
I realise this would have been better posted to the gentoo forum, and I
could probably have found some answers by reading more docs, but I'd
kinda like to hear some SLUG input :P
James
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