Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] gentoo size

[Nathan Atkinson <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Another thing to look at would be your distfiles dir.  That dir
contains a source tarball of every package you have installed on your
system.  After you've installed everything you don't need the tarball
again unless you want to reinstall something.  Search the gentoo
forums for some more info on this.  FYI, my portage dir is 3.9GB so
the more packages you experiment with the larger it gets.

Later,
Nathan


On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:34:57 -0600, Shawn Parker
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> does gentoo normally consume 3 gig of a drive?  granted, i do have kde
> installed.  but, 3 gig?
> 
> i'm used to archlinux.  without a desktop, my server is at 537 mb.  and,
> that is everything.  postfix, imap/pop, apache, mysql, squid, etc.  that
> is actually kind of large for an archlinux box.
> 
> i want some of my drive space back.  :)
> 
> one of the reasons i stopped using redhat was due to the size of the
> installs.  archlinux and gentoo are attractive to me because i can a)
> custom build the system, and b) (i thought) they both looked tiny.
> gentoo on my laptop is huge.
> 
> :)
> 
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