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Re: redundant DOC files
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Leo |
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Re: redundant DOC files |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:44:51 +0000 |
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No Gnus v0.6, Emacs/22.0.92.1 (2007-01-22), Fedora 6 gnu/linux |
On 2007-01-22, Miles Bader said:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>>> The point is if I have 50 builds then the DOC-* will take up more than
>>> 100M disk space.
>>
>> Whoever cares about 100MB of disk space these days? ;-)
>
> If you _do_ care about 100MB of disk space (I do, as I have a small
> disk), you could use the "emacs/quick-install-emacs" script to
> install Emacs, instead of "make install". It hard links installed
> files instead of copying them (which allows much faster re-installs
> as well as saving space), and will optionally purge old cruft like
> DOC-*. To do this you should give it the "-p" (--prune) option.
>
> -Miles
Didn't know about this nice trick.
But the script is lying in admin/quick-install-emacs.
--
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
- Re: redundant DOC files, (continued)
Re: redundant DOC files, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/21
Re: redundant DOC files, Miles Bader, 2007/01/21