Re: [gentoo-user] Size of portage tree

[Ryan Viljoen <ravilj@gmail.com>]

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If you do a:
du -hs /usr/portage/distfiles
and a
du -hs /usr/portage

You will see that the majority of the space is taken up by the distfiles.
This is where emerge stores all the packages that it downloads when
installing them on your system. To decrease the size of the directory you
can go through it and delete older versions of packages such as:

I have:
zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2
zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2

So you could delete zlib-1.2.1.tar.bz2 since there is a new version. I think
there are some scripts out there that do such things but I havent bothered
to find them. I wouldnt suggest deleting all the files since if you want to
reinstall or add new packages they may require files that have been already
downloaded ie: save you the time and bandwidth of redownloading them.

Cheers
Rav


On 9/28/05, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
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> I've noticed /usr/portage is standing at a little over 2 gigs in
> size. Is this about normal?
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