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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 21:11:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160827211139.6859f72c@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP4tJZJU45KmZwBazBQiN4POpYw2qir647dagzqR7pEFbC2y=Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:57:09 -0300, João Matos wrote:

> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've
> found many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex
> folder, for instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't
> even know if is still been used.

Portage only cleans up files it installed. So if you installed Plex,
added a few GB of movies and then uninstalled it, the movies are still
there. Portage cleans up after its actions, you have to clean up after
yours :-)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-27 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-26 23:57 [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo? João Matos
2016-08-27  0:10 ` Ian Bloss
2016-08-27  0:57   ` João Matos
2016-08-27  2:47     ` Ian Bloss
2016-08-27  3:16     ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-08-27  4:32       ` David Haller
2016-08-27  7:12         ` Mick
2016-08-27  8:33           ` Alarig Le Lay
2016-08-27 20:10             ` Neil Bothwick
2016-08-27 20:11 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2016-08-28  4:17   ` [gentoo-user] " P Levine

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