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Gentoo Portage: Clean up Your Mess

04. April 2024 by H. Peter Pfeufer
Gentoo Linux

By default, Gentoo’s emerge downloads and saves a lot of distfiles. And by a lot I mean … A LOT!And they are not removed automatically when the emerge process has finished successfully. Over time this will accumulate quite a collection of files in /vat/cache/distfiles that are no longer needed and just collecting dust there. Not… Read more

Categories Gentoo Linux Tags Gentoo Linux, Portage 2 Comments

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