This is not a bug so nothing is going to be provided for that. What would like to see is an enhancement to portage for cleaning. Currently the only tool that cleans the system well is yacleaner, although it is abandoned it seems and third party. Gentoo needs a command and a script to clean everything for example. # yacleaner --ask --delete --verbose all These are the old files that I would delete: [ binpkg ] [ dist ] ORBit-0.5.17.tar.bz2 1.1M [ dist ] gnome-libs-1.4.2.tar.bz2 2.8M [ dist ] libgphoto2-2.1.6.tar.gz 3.1M [ dist ] nano-1.3.12.tar.gz 1.2M [ dist ] thunderbird-1.5.0.8-source.tar.bz2 35M [ log ] so and so [ worktmp ] so and so [ total ] +42 M Do you want me to delete these old files? [Yes/No] y >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C + Enter to abort)... >>> Cleaning in 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Deleting old files... * /usr/portage/packages was already clean. * /usr/portage/distfiles cleaned. * The $PORT_LOGDIR variable is not set. * /var/tmp/portage was already clean. See this is great in terms for the user? The current "clean" leaves lots to be desired. The script above does not touch the "latest zip, tar, gzip etc files . Otherwise great work what makes gentoo gentoo.
Use eclean-{dist,pkg} from gentoolkit for cleaning binpkgs/distfiles. For the rest, there's plenty of solutions you can stick into cron; app-admin/tmpwatch even includes a sample cronjob to wipe /tmp, /var/tmp/portage etc.
Thanks for the info for me, for others. Hum.. "big sigh" did not know of that.
