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   Alex Buell to All   
   Re: Just a few Gentoo pre-install questi   
   26 Jan 08 00:00:57   
   
   From: alex.buell@munted.org.uk   
      
   On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:48:00 +0100, I waved a wand and this message   
   magically appears in front of J.O. Aho:   
      
   > Yeah, when you say so, I got the whole distfiles included in that   
   > size and it's quite a lot of files, as it's shared over NFS and it   
   > tends to be that a package which is stable for one architecture is   
   > unstable for others, so I have many versions of the source. My   
   > distfiles is 2.8G, which would imply that the portage is 0.9G large.   
      
   Mine's 9.8G in size, perhaps I should do some pruning :o)   
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