Hi,
this is probably an old discussion, sorry for bring it up again.

When I joined Gentoo (a few months ago) I got the idea that I could control 
very well the space that gentoo would require. That would be great because 
of my 4.6G available to it. Then, not so long time ago I got very surprised 
with how much less space available I had when I didn't have (almost) 
anything installed. Now it's completely full and I'm the middle of an emerge 
:(

Well, tears apart, I would like to know if there's a good way to control the 
space usage of portage, since it is the reason for my problem. 
My /usr/portage and /var/tmp/portage/ take 2.2G which is almost half of the 
partition.

What I have installed:
- some (split) ebuilds of kde 3.4.1
- e16
- e17
- firefox
- gimp
- acrobat reader 7
- xmms, amsn (and maybe a few more small packages)

What I've found until now:
- clear /usr/portage/distfiles and /var/tmp/portage after an emerge, or 
regularly (using tmpreaper)
- there are some users-made scripts (still buggy) that look for old ebuilds 
in portage tree and erases them (
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-3011-highlight-portage+space+usage.html
)

Any comments/ideas/scripts about this, or everyone has plenty space to 
spare...

Cheers,
Fernando