Bug#633599: explicit cleanup command

jidanni at jidanni.org jidanni at jidanni.org
Tue Jul 12 13:43:03 UTC 2011


>>>>> "AG" == Alessandro Ghedini <al3xbio at gmail.com> writes:
AG> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:34:27AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
>> I am offline.
>> $ du -hs .cpanm
>> 3.0M    .cpanm
>> It has been weeks since I have used cpanm.
>> I want to clean up that wasted disk space.
>> But there is no cpanm command that will expire them.
>> Maybe you expect me to go online and do some operation, and then you
>> will clean them up automatically for me. But I don't want to go online today.

AG> I see what you suggest, but cleaning up the work directory is just a matter
AG> of "rm -rf .cpanm/work/", I don't think the author would bother adding a
AG> command for that.

OK, but please document that on the man page. There is no way one would
dare do something like that without having it documented.

Also upsteam's email should appear on the man page.





More information about the pkg-perl-maintainers mailing list