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.