> I was wondering if there was a way to use my desktop machine to compile > for my laptop when I `emerge -uD world`. I would like to use my desktop > because it is 4x the 600Mhz that the laptop is. You might want to look into distcc. Basicly distcc hands of some of the compiling work from one machine to one or more others. The down side is that you need a deecent speed connection between the machines..... No using the server at work as a distcc host over a low speed line. The up side is that there are no dependancy problems. You drop it in and go. Read all about it here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
For me, I have a 166Mhz w 80MB thinkpad I'm playing with and distcc didn't help nearly as much as having the server do all the work. Portage does have the ability to build binary packages... that you can then tsfr (rsync,http,ftp) to annother system and merge at a fraction of the load a full build would take. It sounds great but I'm finding alot of gotchas along the way. The upside is speed but the downside is that it's fiddly and you need to know what your doing in portage. An additional downside is there doesn't appear to be alot of doc writen on this subject. Nick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
