I'm new to Gentoo, and curious -- I think the live cd's are an amazing promotional tool, also very functional for many tasks and even offer the potential for a functioning "production" system even -- see Mr. O's latest post. But I've read through: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml and have confirmed what I thought about gentoo being oriented toward customizability (in terms of code; do I have that right?)... so what's the deal with gentoo-distributed binary package sets?? That seems contradictory (beyond the promotional and rescue uses of a bootable cd); are Gentoo users finding that they don't really want to compile *everything* after all? So the new goal is to have a binary starting point, and emerge your own particular interests and concerns from source so that they are the very latest code and also customized for your scenario...? Was there extensive threads about whether or not to do binary release, or did it just make sense at some point? This sort of blurs the reasonig of why Gentoo is so special, for me; so please explain. Thanks!
BB On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:34:30 -0700 Jack Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:08:46PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote: | > I've added 'buildpkg' to my FEATURES in /etc/mk.conf, and | > have quite a few packages. Has anyone here installed Gentoo | > from stage3 and then packages ... as in, not compiling locally | > at all? | | Yes. In Gentoo terms, these binary packages are called Gentoo | Reference Platform (GRP) In the next official release of Gentoo 1.4 | Final, the install cdrom will have GRP for system, Xfree, kde, and | gnome. So users can easily install from binary packages. | | > Also, is it possible to mount /var/tmp/portage as a memfs (or | > whatever it's called in Linux land)? Anyone done it? Save much | > time? Seems to cut quite a bit of time off 'make build' on | > OpenBSD to mount_mfs /usr/obj. | | You can specify /var/tmp/portage any place you want in /etc/make.conf | | # PORTAGE_TMPDIR is the location portage will use for compilations and | # temporary storage of data. This can get VERY large depending | # upon the application being installed. | #PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp | | I usually have /home/tmp as my PORTAGE_TMPDIR. I've not tried your | above idea. My guess is it wouldn't save much time. | | Cheers, | Jack Morgn | Gentoo/Sparc | | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
