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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:35:16PM +0000, Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> > > How would gentoo be installed on a 386? |
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> > Very slowly. 386's and bzip2-compressed packages don't exactly get along :) |
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> :) Is it feasible to have two alternate install routes; one compiling from scratch |
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> and the other pre-compiled? |
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> > If there's a need, we can create a 386-compatible build. |
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> I'm just thinking along the lines of a minimum binary system where absolutley |
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> needed, and compiling specifically everywhere else? I realise this would be |
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> slow to install on slower systems, but, since we're all power users... ;) |
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> Seriously though, I do think this would be a nice feature, unless there's some |
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> practicality reason I'm missing. |
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Right now, it's possible to install the minimal sys.tbz2 tarball and build everything |
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else using portage. If you like, you can then remerge the sys binaries so that they |
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have your desired optimization settings: |
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ebuild foo.ebuild remerge |
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The only one you don't want to remerge is the "baselayout" ebuild, since this will wipe |
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out any changes you've made to your passwd, group, fstab, etc. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |