On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 07:59, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> > My thought is rather than remove the distfiles for the version you are
> > building, remove the distfiles for versions that have just been
> > uninstalled by clean or update (granted they aren't being used by the new
> > version as well). This way you only have the distfiles for what's
> > currently on your system.
> 
> I agree. I have a lot of files that should go to Trash in my distfiles.
> I have to remove them by hand. why keep
> 
> package_v1.0.tbz2
> package_v1.1.tbz2
> package_v1.2.tbz2
> package_v1.3.tbz2
> 
> where package_v1.3.tbz2 will only be used (not for packages with
> patches).

I don't remember where I got this, so I cannot give credit to the
person, but I find this is a great tool for removing distfiles for
packages you no longer have installed.

It is also in python, so portage integration could be a possibility.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux