From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   Arthur Hagen wrote:   
      
   > J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Aragorn wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>                 - /usr/portage   
   >>   
   >> Today portage is 3.7G, but that will grow with the number of new   
   >> packages that will be included in future and shrink depending on   
   >> which packages are dropped.   
   >   
   > Today it's not 3.7 GB.  It's around 500 MB (give or take some, based on   
   > the block size of your hard drive), plus whatever you have in   
   > /usr/portage/distfiles (source code and binary packages) and   
   > /usr/portage/packages (compiled packages explicitly saved).   
   > One system here has /usr/portage/distfiles at 14 GB, and that's current   
   > files only (cleaned out nightly with "eclean distfiles"), while another   
   > has it at zero -- just an autofs entry NFS mounting it on demand.   
   >   
   > You can probably get away with less than 1 GB if you zealously clean out   
   > /usr/portage/distfiles between compiles.  If rebuilding world, you can   
   > create a batch job like:   
   >   
   > emerge --color n -pe world | grep ebuild \   
   > | sed -e 's/.*] /emerge -1 =/' -e 's/$/;rm \/usr\/portage\/distfiles\/*/'   
   > | \ sh   
      
   Well, I don't plan on upgrading too much. ;-)  I believe in the good old   
   rules "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and "never change a winning   
   team". :p   
      
   But still, good advice, thanks. ;-)   
      
   >>>                 - /usr/local   
   >>   
   >> 1M, really I have 164K worth of files in this directory and it's on an   
   >> installation that is soon 4 years old.   
   >   
   > There should be NO files in /usr/local from your distro.  Anything there   
   > should be what you have put or installed there outside your distro.   
      
   Okay, I copy that.  Thanks for your input. :-)   
      
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