My mistake: 700MB NOT 700GB. Nevertheless, I mean to take a look at your advice.
One machine is ordinarily at school on a sporadically fast connection (but not during working hours, when it is slower than a dialup). One is a laptop, with the least HDD space. The other (now crashed) is at home. The firewall at work makes it very difficult or well nigh onto impossible to ssh into that box, and the box at home is only on line when I dial in. I want to set up a $DISTDIR. An external disk would work. When I have one. Alan On 7/19/06, Francesco Talamona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 02:05, Alan E. Davis wrote: > updates. My laptop, with only a 50GB HDD, requires to download 700GB > to emerge -uDv world. It's very odd... I had a common repository for four gentoo boxes, (various arches) and after months of upgrade it was less than 13 GB. Packages installed in main system: 1225. > It's time to thin down. It's time to rationalize :-) I have ${DISTDIR} (see /etc/make.conf) on an external disk, common to all systems. Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.17-gentoo-r2, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Sat Jul 8 07:47:35 CEST 2006 One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4410.81 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
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