A while back I used find_cruft <https://github.com/vaeth/find_cruft/> (mv overlay <http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-portage/find_cruft>). IIRC, I had to do a lot of configuration to eliminate most false positives but it left me with a very thorough list of files worth deleting.
On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:57:09 -0300, João Matos wrote: > > > I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've > > found many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex > > folder, for instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't > > even know if is still been used. > > Portage only cleans up files it installed. So if you installed Plex, > added a few GB of movies and then uninstalled it, the movies are still > there. Portage cleans up after its actions, you have to clean up after > yours :-) > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ? >
