On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: >> <SNIP> >> >> /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs) >> >> >> > >> > Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree? >> > >> > Rgds, >> >> distfiles has a tendency to grow large over the years. IIRC nothing >> cleans it up automatically so having it separate is just a simple >> safety mechanism to not run out of disk space after emerge -fDuN >> @world, etc. > > man eclean > http://gpio.ca/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+eclean > > -- > Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> >
Yes, true, but all I said was that TTBOMK nothing does it automatically, not that it cannot be automated. - Mark
