On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:46:51 +0200
mmacleod@... wrote:

> > only one use flag combination you are looking at ~0451
> Sorry this should read:
> "only one cflag combination you are looking at ~10451"

Where did you get that number? Did you really compile everything in the
tree? Well, I don't think that's needed. I use FEATURES="buildpackage"
on all my machines. My headless server uses 1.2 GB, my workstation with
GNOME, KDE 4.2 and stuff like firefox, tunderbird, octave, openoffice
and much more uses 6.0 GB and my second, more minimal desktop uses 1.7
GB. I did not run eclean-pkg in a while, so that should be much more
than I really need.

So, if you start with, say, some basic i686 profile and really basic
CFLAGS and not build too much stuff (Desktop environments, FF, TB, OOo)
it should not use too much diskspace. From there it would be really
interesting to share packages, I think. We definitively have some
packages, that do not depend on architecture. If somebody wants to have
different USE-flags it would be interesting to just build the packages
with the different USE-flags again, not everything.

In my opinion, the ultimate goal would be to provide software that any
organization running Gentoo Linux (a school, university, company) could
set up their own buildserver and either let other people mirror that
once a day or something (minimizing traffic) or provide the packages to
anybody who wants them on a server. Sometimes these organizations will
employ Gentoo developers or the responsible guy there will become one,
then he could set up some infrastructure to sign packages and they
could be trusted.

Philipp