A few tips from Jaka Kranjc
Jaka “lynx” Kranjc was nice enough to send in some helpful quick tips for readers.
Use cleanse --sweep to delete unnecessary sources and binary caches. Files are kept if any spell/version in any grimoire could use them.
You have no idea why you have package X installed. You don’t need it, but perhaps some other installed package does? Check with gaze depends X 2
When dispelling, you can also automatically dispel any orphans. Orphans? Orphans are packages that nobody needs, so if X depends on Y and you dispel X, Y is an orphan and probably just takes up space. In this example, to dispel X and any spells who are orphaned by dispelling it you would use: dispel --orphan ask-yes X (see the dispel man page for further info, there is a lot more to this!)
You can quickly downgrade a spell (eg. X at 2.1.1) if you have the cache tarball of a previous version with: dispel -d X 2.0.1