what can I remove?

caefer · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 10:11 am Post subject: what can I remove?

hi!
since I am installing gentoo on a small machine to be a router. :mrgreen:

and since I won't work on that machine, I want to remove all files, that i can, to gain space.
can you tell me, which folders are save to remove?

regards
/christian

masseya · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:27 pm Post subject:

You can delete all the files in /var/tmp/portage safely. You could also delete all the files in /usr/portage/distfiles, but they would have to be downloaded if you were to re-compile or need them for some reason. Portage would simply get them again, but it would save some space to manage them manually.
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caefer · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject:

ok, thanks!
but what's inside /usr/portage ?
/christian

masseya · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:42 pm Post subject:

Don't delete the files inside /usr/portage, just those in /usr/portage/distfiles. /usr/portage contains the portage tree and a bunch of information on your protage profile. If you delete this then you'll run into many errors when trying to use portage. I think they could be solved by an emerge sync, but I honestly don't know. I've never considered deleting my portage tree to save space and I'm not on my gentoo box to have a look-see and speculate on what would happen.
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rac · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20484

Even if you deleted everything under /usr/portage, you'd still need the diskspace available to do a sync. If you use the -b or buildpkg option, you can also delete (or backup) files in /usr/portage/packages/All
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