On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Theofilos Intzoglou wrote:

> /var/tmp/portage can be removed safely as it is the place where the packages are 
>unpacked and compiled before
 installation. After the emerging has been completed the folder can be safely removed. 
On the next emerging
 the necessary folders and files will b
> e automatically created again.
> 

Thank you. I guess it would be a good idea to keep /var/tmp/portage and 
/usr/portage/distfiles in some big partition, for good measure, specially 
if one 
wants to compile something like OpenOffice.
 -- 
Jorge Almeida


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