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| -rw-r--r-- | man/emaint.1 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/make.conf.5 | 6 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/emaint.1 b/man/emaint.1 index 98c33429f..2cf31420f 100644 --- a/man/emaint.1 +++ b/man/emaint.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .TH "EMAINT" "1" "Dec 2005" "Portage 2.1" "Portage" .SH NAME -emaint \- updates environment settings automatically +emaint \- performs system health checks and maintenance .SH SYNOPSIS .BR emaint [\fIoptions\fR] diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5 index ac4555ed0..df4e08c92 100644 --- a/man/make.conf.5 +++ b/man/make.conf.5 @@ -98,7 +98,11 @@ This variable is passed by the \fIebuild scripts\fR to the \fIconfigure\fR as \fI\-\-target=${CTARGET}\fR only if it is defined. .TP \fBDISTDIR\fR = \fI[path]\fR -Defines the location of your local source file repository. Note +Defines the location of your local source file repository. 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 +\fBeclean\fR(1) from the gentoolkit package. Note that locations under /usr/portage are not necessarily safe for data storage. See the \fBPORTDIR\fR documentation for more information. .br |