On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:46:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I ask because I need to rezise my /var to minimize wasted space. I
> > know for sure I have remerged QT and mozilla (with USE= -gnome)
> > recently without problems with just over 1G free. I hate having 5G
> > lying there doing nothing until I remerge OOo :-)
>
> Set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to somewhere where the space would be useful at
> other times too, like /home.

That's a good idea - I didn't think of that

> Or change it for OOo builds only. 

I keep forgetting to do stuff like that and only find out 4 hours into 
an 8 hour emerge.... :-)

alan



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