Re: [gentoo-dev] another portage ideea :)

[Xavier Neys <neysx@gentoo.org>]

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Brian Harring wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 05:36, KRimminal wrote:
> 
>>well, this ideea has been passed around on the gentoo forum, but no
>>steps have been taken.
>>the issue is: 'deletion of old distfiles'.
>>well, the code is in the forums, can someone check it and put it in the
>>portage tree ?
> 
> I'd touched on inclusion of a distfiles cleaning utility in glep25-
> regardless if the glep gets accepted or not, I think it would be a
> useful addition to app-portage/gentoolkit.
> 
> I've personally been using a modified distclean, no complaints with it.
> ~brian

For what it's worth, this is how I list my unused distfiles:

# find /usr/portage/distfiles -type f -not \( `emerge -epf world 2>&1|awk 
'BEGIN{mino=""}{n=split($1,a,"/");if(n>1){print mino,"-name ",a[n];mino=" -o 
"}}'` \)

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