Can I delete the packages folder under the global .meteor? I just realized it's 18.5GB

[a.com]

I typically delete my bundler caches every now in then in each individual meteor project, but I’m wondering if it’s also okay to delete the packages folder (which I think is in the global .meteor folder)

I know that at least some portion of whatever is in there will get re-downloaded anyway, but I’m guessing 50% are packages I used once and never downloaded/used again in any other project?

UPDATE:

Meteor tool and previous version cleanup

Meteor has to download the appropriate version of the command line tool to run an old app. You can check what version an app is using without downloading the tool by reading the .meteor/release file directly.

[waldgeist]

Yes, you can. Meteor will rebuild the required parts automatically.

Here’s another option:

Clean up your Meteor package cache!

As you may know, Meteor stores downloaded Atmosphere packages in a cache in your user directory (~/.meteor/packages). However, the longer you use Meteor, the more packages and package updates are downloaded and the larger this cache will get because Meteor doesn’t remove old or unused packages (yet). There is a request for this feature but until it’s implemented in the Meteor tool, you can use my meteor-cleaner npm package to remove unused packages and free up (a lot of) disk space! …