A Gentoo question

[Collins Richey]

On 6/22/07, Christer Ekholm <che at chrekh.se> wrote:
> Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:39:44 -0500
> > "David Bandel" <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
>
> Actually sometimes you need them again, if reinstalling something due
> to USE changes, or with upgrades on the ebuild only ( -r? ).
>
> app-portage/gentoolkit has a utility called eclean that removes only
> the packages never needed again.
>
> ex:
>
>   $ sudo eclean distfiles

True enough, but you can always remove all the distfiles. They will be
downloaded again if you ever need them again.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.