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I've looked around in the wiki a bit, but I haven't seemed to find any information about this. I'm just curious that after I've installed a program through the pkg system, and pacman. The files that are left over, the PKGBUILD, the tar's, etc, am I able to delete all of that without harming any program I've installed? I just don't want all the clutter, and there's already many files on the folder I keep them in, and over time it's going to get out of control.
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You can delete everything
You may want to save the actual package though for reinstall.
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Yes you can safely remove everything from directory where your program was built, they are unnecessary until you want an update. Then youll need to download PKGBUILD again.
Last edited by Coacher (2010-05-13 19:20:49)
Yes. I personally keep the pkg.tar.gz in case I need to reinstall it. If you automatize building with yaourt (for example), the files are put in /tmp and removed when everything is complete or on reboot.
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Last edited by benob (2010-05-13 19:34:24)
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-c, --clean Clean up work files after build
Could be useful here.
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Awesome, thanks everyone for the advice.
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makepkg -h wrote:-c, --clean Clean up work files after build
Could be useful here.
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Using makepkg -cs or even -csi makes the whole thing too easy.
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You may also be interested in pkgclean from pkgtools, as that cleans up some of the cruft too.
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