Re: Removing old source packages

2003-06-06 Thread Dario Alcocer
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:52:18PM +0100, andrew brian clegg wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > N.B.: the above will not apply as soon as the RPM package is used, since > > that package apparently uses a subdirectory in /usr/src as the RPM > > repository, so beware. > > One

Re: Removing old source packages

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > As long as the programs are properly installed (either by setup or by > > using "make install" or some such), there should be no dependence on > > anything in /usr/src whatsoever. This basically mea

Re: Removing old source packages

2003-06-06 Thread andrew brian clegg
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As long as the programs are properly installed (either by setup or by > using "make install" or some such), there should be no dependence on > anything in /usr/src whatsoever. This basically means that you may blow > away any and all things in /usr/

Re: Removing old source packages

2003-06-06 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, andrew brian clegg wrote: > Hi folks. > > A couple of my cygwinned machines have got huge /usr/src trees because I'm > a bit of an obsessive collector, and at some point in the past decided it > would be really neat to install the sources for every package I install. > (Which i

Removing old source packages

2003-06-06 Thread andrew brian clegg
Hi folks. A couple of my cygwinned machines have got huge /usr/src trees because I'm a bit of an obsessive collector, and at some point in the past decided it would be really neat to install the sources for every package I install. (Which is usually all of them -- obsessive collector, see...) No