From: realnc@arcor.de   
      
   J.O. Aho wrote:   
   >> And space is showing signs of getting tight already.  I only have a   
   >> base-system, and yet it eats 3GB (from 10GB total).  It looks like   
   >> Gentoo will need outrageous amounts of space for a full KDE desktop.   
   >   
   > Each time you build something, you download the source and gentoo   
   > patches, you should clean out your /usr/portage/distfiles of all   
   > unneeded files. A full install of KDE will take something like 511M when   
   > compiled.   
      
   I used `eclean --destructive distfiles` to clean, but it's not really   
   deleting anything.  Is it safe to simply `rm -rf   
   /usr/portage/distfiles/*` as well as `rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*`?  Those   
   two directory trees eat about 1GB right now.   
      
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