eclean Command Examples

Clean repository source files and binary packages. More information: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eclean.

• Clean the source file directory:

sudo eclean distfiles

• Clean the binary package directory:

sudo eclean packages

• Clean the distfiles of all uninstalled packages, but keep the distfiles of installed packages:

sudo eclean --deep --package-names distfiles

• Clean the binary packages of all uninstalled packages, but keep the binaries of installed packages:

sudo eclean --deep --package-names packages