Can the Payment Gateway Projects in the Payment folder be deleted

In the Payment folder, there are all these Payment Gateways Projects :

Nop.Payment.Beanstream

Nop.Payment.CashOnDelivery

Nop.Payment.CDGcommerce

Nop.Payment.ChronoPay

Nop.Payment.eWayUK

and more . . .

I'm probably not going to use 70% of them. Can I delete these Projects safely?

Sure, you can

Thanks. I just did this and highly recommend doing it if you don't need those Gateways.

When I Build the Solution now, it takes less than half the time it did.
I removed 25 of them.
Here is the difference between 2 website :

NopCommerceStore -> M:\NOP2\NopCommerceStore\bin\NopCommerceStore.dll
========== Build: 56 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

*** This one I removed the 25 Payment Gateways ***

NopCommerceStore -> M:\NOP\NopCommerceStore\bin\NopCommerceStore.dll
========== Build: 31 succeeded or up-to-date, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

It only has to build 31 projects instead of 56. This cut a lot of time off the build.

MikeMCSD wrote:

You can delete them, but this is what I like to do.

Change the build configuration for the entire project to "Release". The publish your site to a temporary folder. Copy all the published .dll's to a new directory, maybe under "Dependencies/Compiled/". Then delete or unload all the payment/shipping/tax providers. Then add the compiled references to NopCommerceStore.

The increases VS performance and reduces build time.