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Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on the distributions and default settings. In arch, by default, pacman doesn't delete cache.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pacman's cache isn't in ~/.cache though, it's in /var/cache. So whatever is taking up this much space isn't the package manager.

That being said, I think the arch devs should add a config option to automatically delete old packages without having to run paccache manually and have it default to the last 2 versions of a package or so. It can grow quite big over time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can set a hook to do it automatically or use this, but I agree that this should be default behaviour

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can also just do systemctl enable paccache.timer to automatically run paccache once a week.