> Hello,
>> I just want to know if the files in the /usr/portage are essential for
> the system, because it's using 40% of my space.
>> Thank you.
As mentioned the ebuilds are in there. However, the
/usr/portage/distfiles folder contains downloaded source tar.gz's.
You can safely clear this out if you don't think you'll need em again.
Gav
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