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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] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Paru cache is huge and you have to delete it manually with something like paru -Sc i think

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My update script handles mirrors, updates and cleans the cache automatically. I'd definitely recommend creating one. It's aliased to sysupdate for me and I also check if it's a debian or arch based distro so the command works on my servers and desktop

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

What is your update script? Where did you post it?

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

I don't think I've posted it before, but here it is. If you use different utilities you'd have to swap those out. Also excuse the comments, I had GH Copilot generate this script

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

I highly recommend topgrade. You can add custom commands so clearing paru's cache shouldn't be a problem. I just do it by hand as I'm ok with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've heard of tools like that, but this works fine for me. This way I'm not dependent on it being packaged for my distro and having to install it through other means. I'm fine running things manually, this is just for convenience