Re: [gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 18:43, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Etaoin, what you say about unpacked souces is not right: > Packed sources are copied to PORTAGE_TMPDIR (by default it is > /var/tmp/portage) and unpacked + compiled there, and the > compilation process sometimes uses a *lot* of disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 04/13/05 avril Edward Catmur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:43 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: >> Packed sources are copied to PORTAGE_TMPDIR (by default it is >> /var/tmp/portage) and unpacked + compiled there, and the >> compilation process sometimes us

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Edward Catmur
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:43 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Packed sources are copied to PORTAGE_TMPDIR (by default it is > /var/tmp/portage) and unpacked + compiled there, and the > compilation process sometimes uses a *lot* of disk space. When this is > finished the files are *not* deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:43:51 +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Packed sources are copied to PORTAGE_TMPDIR (by default it is > /var/tmp/portage) and unpacked + compiled there, and the > compilation process sometimes uses a *lot* of disk space. When this is > finished the files are *not* delet

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 04/13/05 avril Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit notamment: > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:39, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > >> But what are the implications of this? If i was to remove the source >> packages would i break portage? once before i tried removing the >> sources in portage and n

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:39, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > But what are the implications of this? If i was to remove the source > packages would i break portage? once before i tried removing the > sources in portage and nothing would install anymore. The unpacked sources are not stored anywhere; t

[gentoo-user] Removing source packages

2005-04-13 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hi all, I am using Gentoo on a laptop which does not have a lot of free space. Now i want to free up some space and was considering removing some of the unpacked sources in portage (espacially the openoffice source, which takes quite a chunk of space). But what are the implications of this? If i