More distfiles questions

gojuka · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 4:18 pm Post subject: More distfiles questions

Is the any harm in just deleting all the tarballs in distfiles? I know there is a nice script that was posted which will clean up redundant distfiles, but is there any harm (other than having to re-download them if you re-emerge a package) in just removing them alltogether? I can just imagine the gigs of disk space that are being wasted around the world holding local copies of these tarballs, including on my little 4GB laptop. This seems to me to be (part of) the reason we have centralised file repositories.

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SuperTomate · Guru Joined: 02 Jun 2002 Posts: 392 Location: France

Gentoo FAQ : .tar.gz sources for installed software are piling up in /usr/portage/distfiles/ using valuable space. Is it safe to delete these files?

gojuka · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 5:17 pm Post subject:

What? You expect me to read the docs?! Just kidding ... my bad. I should have realised this would an FAQ. Thanks!

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