Because my Hard Drive was filling up, I checked my folders and found that I had quite a lot of duplicate packages on my HD. So I created this tool (with some help from the gentoo forums) to detect duplicate Packages.
Make sure to also read
Clean out unused packages from Portage
and
findcruft: Yet another script to find obsolete files
if you want a clean drive.
There is a lot of software written for Linux, more than you think (escpecially when switching from the windows world). But it's not always too clear how to use vertain programs or which ones are useful for a certain exercise, and there are some pieces of software that you always have but never quite knew what to do with, so I created a this page to give some useful hints :)
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