On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:04:16 -0700 George Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a more reasonable/saner way to maintain my system. > I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it > has downloaded, or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could > be safely flushed. Hi, portage/distfiles contains downloaded sources and can grow quite large over time. If you have a fast internet connection you can safely delete it. portage/packages contains binary packages that are created when using the -b or -B options to emerge, or if you have set FEATURES="buildpkg" in make.conf. You can delete this as well. /var/tmp/portage contains temp files while building. Those files can be left behind if emerge fails or is interrupted. You can delete it as long as emerge is not running. Regards -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
