[plug] Gentoo

[William Kenworthy]

just a point - try not to delete the tarballs, save em off onto CD if
space is a problem (I share an nfs mount between systems so only one set
is needed).  Why? - one of the advantages of gentoo is that it is tuned
to your hardware/profile: want to change to a higher/lower level of
optimisation?, compile kde stuff into the appropriate applications?,
then just change the profile and recompile, for which you will need the
original tarball.  Same when gcc2.3 and gnome2 came out - a few commands
and a recompile and I am again at the (b)leeding edge

Mind you, after a few months and 3 systems and vmware images, I have
nearly 2g of tarballs - all via modem!!!

BillK


On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 00:32, Tony Clark wrote:
> I've been using it for a couple of months now.  I like it as it tends to be 
> very up to date but that has a down side that things break once in a while 
> though nothing serious so far.  You can reckon on using a lot of drive space 
> as it doesn't delete source code that you install.  You can do that yourself.  
> I started with the basic tar ball but I installed it onto another drive and 
> just chroot to where I was putting it.  You can reckon on the best part of a 
> day of compiling on a reasonably fast machine with kde or gnome.  Emerge is 
> ok, maybe not as powerfull as apt.  If you uninstall a program it won't 
> remove any un-needed dependencies yet.  You have to work them out and remove 
> them if you care.  There is plenty of support available in mailing lists 
> forums and IRC and the developers take a very proactive part in that support.
> 
> tony
> 
> 
> On Thursday 24 October 2002 15.04, Chris Caston wrote:
> > Just wondering... have many of you have played with Gentoo yet?
> >
> > I'm going to install 1.4 on my athlon machine. What experiences have you
> > had with it?
> >
> > Does emerge hit debian where is hurts or is recompiling everything take
> > way to long?
> >
> > Which stage tarball did you use?
> >
> > I've heard that it takes some time to setup but once you do you've got a
> > very fast system.
> >
> >  Also more recently the main LTSP ebuilds came out but if you want other
> > LTSP packages then you'd probably have to make the ebuilds yourself I
> > suppose.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Chris Caston
> 
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