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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to clean /usr/portage/distfiles?
From:       Darren Kirby <bulliver () badcomputer ! no-ip ! com>
Date:       2004-09-17 18:04:55
Message-ID: 200409171105.02719.bulliver () badcomputer ! no-ip ! com
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quoth the Yuan Mei:
> As I observed, ``emerge -u something'' downloads a new ``.tar.bz2''
> file while remaining the previous version of source code there not
> deleted, thus the directory /usr/portage/distfile gets bigger and
> bigger over the process of updates.
> Is there any good methods or tools to clean the obsolete source files?

As far as I know, the packages in distfiles need to be removed manually.

-d

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