A Gentoo question

[Myles Green]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:39:44 -0500
"David Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks for the quick response David. I was pretty sure I could clean it
out, I just thought it better to be 100% certain. Is there a config
file somewhere where one can direct emerge to clean out all this cruft?

Thanks again,

-- 
Myles Green
Geek by nature. Unix by choice.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. 
It's already tomorrow in Australia" (Charles Schultz)
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/pipermail/linux-users/attachments/20070622/42ddf241/attachment.pgp