On Friday 25 November 2011 21:09:04 Mark Knecht wrote:
> 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

I find something on forums.gentoo.org that is called distfiles-cleanup. it's a 
perl scrit to clean distfiles by release order. Search it.

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