I struggle from insufficient space on my SSD all the time. Every time a major upgrade including a serious number of packages arrives I have to seek what can I delete/move to free up some space so the upgrade could succeed. pacman -Sc deletes old packages from the pacman cache but seemingly leaves non-old packages in place. My \var\cache\pacman is 5.1 GiB now and this is a significant number for me. Are these files needed for anything useful but to install the apps? Given the apps are already installed and work just fine can I delete the packages? If it's Ok to delete them, what is the correct way I should use instead of just deleting the files manually?
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I think it's fine to delete all the packages, but there is several advantages if we keep it, such as :
- It allows to downgrade a package without the need to retrieve the previous version through other means, such as the Arch Linux Archive.
- A package that has been uninstalled can easily be reinstalled directly from the cache folder, not requiring a new download from the repository.
Ref : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#Cleaning_the_package_cache
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pacman -Scc– 炸鱼薯条德里克 Jan 03 '19 at 12:52pacman -Sccseems to be the right answer. Please post it as an answer and I'll accept it. – Ivan Jan 03 '19 at 18:35