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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ?
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:48:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090129004823.1e96b0d7@krikkit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <glqqeo$2pi$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:41:23 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> > You want to get rid of ALL of them?
> > 
> > rm -rf /usr/portage/packages/*  
> 
> If that's safe, then I guess that'll do :P

Even rm -fr /usr/portage/packages is safe.

If you want to do it selectively, remove the tbz2 files from ${PKGDIR}/
All then use symlinks (or find) to get rid of the dangling links this
leaves.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Never kiss anything that doesn't have lips.

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-29  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28  6:44 [gentoo-user] How to remove packages from /usr/portage/packages ? Nikos Chantziaras
2009-01-28 23:18 ` Shawn Haggett
2009-01-28 23:41   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-01-29  0:48     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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