I am wondering is there any places where Portage stashes files that it has downloaded
/usr/portage/distfiles. This can always be safely deleted, although doing so will mean that you will have to re-download the source files if you ever need to reinstall any of the programs you have currently installed.
or temp files (other than the tmp directory) that could be safely flushed.
The temp files for failed emerges are found in (I believe) /var/tmp/portage/package_name. These can also be deleted (the temp files are deleted automatically when the emerge succeeds, and if the emerge has failed, the temp files aren't going to help you much anyway), and can get pretty big if you failed to compile OO.o, for example.
Hope this helps.
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