Bug#633599: explicit cleanup command

[Tatsuhiko Miyagawa]

Work directories are automatically cleaned up after 1 week and that is
configurable. It is documented in the man page.
On Jul 12, 2011 6:43 AM, <jidanni at jidanni.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
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