On Wednesday 05 November 2008 09:20:44 Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: > Hi, > > > > Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? > Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains > few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB ... Where other distro's like > slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or Gnome .
Use df, du and such tools to figure it out for yourself. The biggest directory is usually distfiles which contains theoriginal sources portage unpacked to build the package -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
