On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 2:47 PM n952162 <n952162@web.de> wrote:

Hi,

I'm running out of space and I see I have many versions of all pkgs. Is
the proper way to get rid of all older tarballs - but retain the current
ones - to simply use the --clean option with emerge? Any other options
necessary?

You might want to give https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Remove_obsoleted_distfiles a read.

Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org>
...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law,
no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft