Hi David,

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 10:59:09PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you emerge, the /usr/portage/distfiles get stuffed with old
> packaged. even through it is safe to delete them all, and d/l again
> when needed, but i just want to remove only the old version. is there
> any way, or any tool to help with this task?
 
Yes, there is a tool called eclean which will handle this.  It is in the
gentoolkit package, so emerge gentoolkit and you should have it.

Thanks,

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William Hubbs
gentoo accessibility team lead
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