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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the |
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>>> thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the |
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>>> administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every |
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>>> computer system to Gentoo. |
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>> Check out distccd! |
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> How does that help? Either every machine on the network spends time |
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> compiling when it should be earning its keep, or they all pass all the |
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> load to a compiler system that has to recompile the same code over and |
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> over for each computer on the network. Using that computer to build |
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> binary packages that the others can install is so much more efficient. |
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It does help in the case that Florian mentioned, also quoted at the top, |
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about the laptop... I agree that if you are going to build the same |
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thing for every computer it makes sense to do it just once. I was |
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thinking more about the laptop... |
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Randy Barlow |
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http://electronsweatshop.com |
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