Re: [Fink-users] fink, cleanup and unused files

[Peter S. <pe...@pj...>]

I believe that you're looking for 

fink cleanup --all

On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 19:42 +0100, Etienne Roesch wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have been using fink for a few years now, performing the occasional  
> self-update and update of packages when needed. Once in a while,  
> something in the installation process wouldn't work, but most of the  
> time I found workaround and it is all good in the best possible world.
> 
> On Sunday, I decided I would install kde. Unfortunately, something did  
> go wrong - and I am still unsure how to solve it, but that is not the  
> reason for my email. Installing kde requires A LOT of packages, and  
> now /sw weighs a good 4.41 Go. Most of it comes from tgz and deb  
> files, which the cleanup command doesn't seem to see. (I assume that  
> if the installation had worked okay, most of these files would have  
> been removed, hmm)
> 
> My questions:
> 1) How safe is it to manually remove source and deb files?
> 2) Is it going to affect the installation trees?
> 3) What is a sanitary way of handling installations, if cleanup  
> doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to do?
> 
> Thanks for your help!!
> 
> ~Etienne
> 
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