A Gentoo question

[David Bandel]

On 6/22/07, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a question pertaining to Gentoo Linux: in the
> directory /usr/portage/distfiles I have roughly 4GB of tarballs which I
> would like to clear out so I can re-claim the space. Is it alright to
> empty this directory or am I asking for trouble?

You can get rid of the tarballs.  That's everything you ever
installed.  But now it's installed.  So why do you need it?

Another directory you might want to empty from time to time is
/var/tmp.  It will have a portage directory and a cache directory.

Yes, Gentoo gets lots of cruft accumulated on the system.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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