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Diffstat (limited to 'cnf')
| -rw-r--r-- | cnf/make.conf | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/cnf/make.conf b/cnf/make.conf index d31036727..df7bddc27 100644 --- a/cnf/make.conf +++ b/cnf/make.conf @@ -87,12 +87,13 @@ #PORTDIR=/usr/portage # # DISTDIR is where all of the source code tarballs will be placed for -# emerges. The source code is maintained here unless you delete -# it. The entire repository of tarballs for Gentoo is 9G. This is -# considerably more than any user will ever download. 2-3G is -# a large DISTDIR. Note that locations under /usr/portage are not -# necessarily safe for data storage. See the PORTDIR documentation -# for more information. +# emerges. After packages are built, it is safe to remove any and +# all files from this directory since they will be automatically +# fetched on demand for a given build. If you would like to +# selectively prune obsolete files from this directory, see +# eclean from the gentoolkit package. Note that locations under +# /usr/portage are not necessarily safe for data storage. See the +# PORTDIR documentation for more information. #DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles # # PKGDIR is the location of binary packages that you can have created |