Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > On Saturday, 26 February 2022 14:19:15 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > > --->8 > >> After reading the responses in the thread, this appears to be one way to >> do it. Though I think adding it to a set could be a cleaner way? I >> haven't tried all of the suggestions yet. > > In passing, I thought I'd mention that I keep most of my packages in sets: > core, base, xorg, plasma, apps and utils. My world file only gets used for > temporary or experimental things: it has one entry at the moment. >
This is very interesting. I've read a bit about sets a while ago and I'd
say I should really try it out.
> I did that because of the frequency of reinstalling the system during the
> worst of plasma's instability.
>
>> > Oh - and for quite a while I used the -b -k flags a lot, mostly emerging
>> > on the slower system actually then installing the binary on the fast
>> > one. Sounds odd, but the faster, newer system had a habit of crashing
>> > during an emerge ... Both systems now gone to the Computer Centre in the
>> > Sky :-)
>>
>> That is certainly odd. You would assume that the faster system would be
>> the one compiling stuff for the slower one. I've been thinking of buying
>> a couple of old desktops for the sole purpose of being distcc slaves but
>> I don't know how much that would improve the compile times.
>
> Counter-intuitive, to say the least, and certainly not the way I do it.
>
Yeah, I was just thinking about that since building a powerful, new
computer around my area is prohibitively expensive. But getting old,
prebuilt computers is ludicrously cheap. I figured that I can get a few
of them for $50-75 and just plug them to an ethernet switch to do the
compiling for me.
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> Regards,
> Peter.
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