GNU bug report logs - #9958
24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles

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Packages: gnus, emacs;

Reported by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>

Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 07:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.0.91

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
To: 9958 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Sven Joachim <svenjoac <at> gmx.de>
Subject: bug#9958: 24.0.91; Gnus agent needs a command to remove downloaded articles
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 08:54:46 +0100

Package: Emacs,Gnus

My ~/News directory ballooned to several hundred megabytes since I
switched from Emacs 23.3/No Gnus 0.17 to Emacs 24/Gnus 5.13 six weeks
ago.  I found out this is because the agent stores copies of the full
articles, rather than just the headers, under ~/News/agent, as requested
in bug #8502.  Note that I don't use IMAP, just NNTP (Gmane).

While this probably makes sense, there should be an easy way to clear
the cache and free up disk space.  I ended up running

find ~/News/agent -name "[0-9]*" -delete

which is not what people should have to do, IMHO.
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