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From: Ryan Tandy <tarpman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 06:21:45
Message-Id: 447FD34B.4000600@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] installing a binary package without /usr/portage by Teresa and Dale
1 Teresa and Dale wrote:
2 > Could you put /usr/portage on a dvd and just mount it there?
3
4 Don't put the whole of /usr/portage on the DVD, since all the ebuilds
5 etc you won't be using are a waste of space. Rather, just put packages/
6 on the DVD, and mount it there.
7
8 > You could also use a NFS to access
9 > the files. Just put all the souce tarballs on one machine and share
10 > them with the rest. Just a idea.
11
12 IMO this is a better idea, since you can have access to the entire tree
13 if you need it, and you don't need to waste money on DVDs.
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