Re: [gentoo-dev] New feature proposition (make.conf)

[Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk>]

On Thursday 21 August 2003 05:44, Stewart Honsberger wrote:

> That's where it gets tricky. OpenOffice, Mozilla et al. are two great
> examples of packages whose source tarballs are *LARGE*. On one hand,
> those would, in one fell swoop, free up the most HDD space = most
> benefeit. On the other hand, they'd also cost more bandwidth to
> re-download = most detrimental.
>
> Operating on a strictly age-based system based around file access time
> could potentially work, except that Gentoo's install defaults and/or
> suggests strongly the notion of 'noatime' in fstab entries.

I used something similar for a while (using 'find' and atimes) but it was 
never very satisfactory. The right time to delete these large tarballs is 
"after the user has decided he wont be needing it". Im not sure how to 
automate that.

Perhaps the best solution would be something like etc-update.... It finds the 
best candidates for deletion based on size and age, and lets the user select 
the ones to delete.



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