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On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 07:47, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> I told him I thought that it would probably be feasible to write a |
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> script to parse the portage tree, and to download all the files |
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> necessary for all the latest current stable builds in there. (Actually |
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> we have no idea even how much that is, but it certainly doesn't involve |
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> 5 or 6 versions of kde & gnome :-) |
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Even ignoring such things as NWN and America's Army (1.2GB and 700MB, |
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respectively), you are going to end up with a *MASSIVE* amount of data. |
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I would tend to think closer to 10x the size of a DVD. You would |
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probably do best to come up with a subset of the portage tree to |
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include. Perhaps a KDE-only DVD, which strips all Gnome-related ebuilds |
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from the tree. You could also do the same for Gnome. I also think it |
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would be a good idea to skip all of games-* simply due to size on a few |
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of them. |
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You will probably want to look at your space requirements. I am sure |
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one of the mirror admins could give you an insight into just how much |
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data there is in the tree. I would say your DVD with your original |
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specifications, would have to be somewhere around one half of the total |
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mirror size. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer |
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Games/LiveCD Teams |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Is your power animal a penguin? |