On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:39, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > But what are the implications of this? If i was to remove the source > packages would i break portage? once before i tried removing the > sources in portage and nothing would install anymore.
The unpacked sources are not stored anywhere; they are unpacked during the build phase, and after that only the compressed version is kept, in /usr/portage/distfiles, and it's perfectly safe to delete everything inside that directory. Of course, keep in mind that if you delete the sources for a package, the next time portage needs them it will have to redownload them. So, if you don't have an internet connection deleting the sources might break something, in case you want to recompile a package for which the source tarball has been deleted. -- "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want." - Computer analyst to programmer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
