On 6/27/06, JC Denton <jcdentonmail@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> How can I find out how much space I need?


The ebuild should have told you something like "you need 256MB RAM and 4-6GB
space" and even warn you if you don't have enough. I think there's also a
portage FEATURE that makes these checks to abort emerge if they fail,
instead of just warn. Can't find the feature's name now, though.

And do I get this space back after the compiling
> process is finished?
>

You can get it instantly, remove everything in /var/tmp/portage/ (when you
are not emerging something).

Caster