Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Daniel Troeder wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2008, 12:50 +0530 schrieb Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan
>
> Neomal:
> > Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system?
>
> Yes: /var/db/pkg  (/var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS)

no, that is just a LIST.
.
>
> >  Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains
> > few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB … Where other distro’s like
> > slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or
> > Gnome .
>
> Then: Gentoo installs (in binary distros terms) all "*-dev" packages
> (all libs and headers), as it needs this for compiling - that blows the
> system a lot.

a bit ;) but yes.

> In my system (GNOME, lots of servers, development software) the
> installed package DB (/var/db/pkg) is about 200 MB.
> The portage tree (/usr/portage) is about 500 MB for everybody...
>
> > Where should I look for information …
>
> * Use 'qsize' from app-portage/portage-utils to find out package sizes.
> * Use 'du -sm /* /*/* | sort -n' to take a first peak at how files are
> distributed on your disk.

and don't forget that du is lying - a lot.