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PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:06 pm    Post subject: /var/tmp/portage: important? Reply with quote

Hey everyone. I was just wondering if it would be ok for me to delete the contents of /var/tmp/portage or if I should leave it. Thanks in advance.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In this I read it's safe to do so :).
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

u can delete the contents, thats just the space portage uses to compile
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ofcourse, rming the contents of /var/tmp/portage wont be such a good idea when you're in the middle of an emerge :).
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 28, 2004 9:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well I'm glad I can do this because I have lots and lots of stuff there... :-P Thanks for the help :)

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

d9f61 wrote:
Ofcourse, rming the contents of /var/tmp/portage wont be such a good idea when you're in the middle of an emerge :).


ill add that to my list of stupid things to try :)

one of the things i currently want to try is to install gentoo onto a fat partition. i dont know if it will work, but if it does, i want to see how it performs haha
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30547
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