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On Saturday, 26 February 2022 14:19:15 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: |
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> After reading the responses in the thread, this appears to be one way to |
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> do it. Though I think adding it to a set could be a cleaner way? I |
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> haven't tried all of the suggestions yet. |
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In passing, I thought I'd mention that I keep most of my packages in sets: |
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core, base, xorg, plasma, apps and utils. My world file only gets used for |
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temporary or experimental things: it has one entry at the moment. |
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I did that because of the frequency of reinstalling the system during the |
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worst of plasma's instability. |
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> > Oh - and for quite a while I used the -b -k flags a lot, mostly emerging |
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> > on the slower system actually then installing the binary on the fast |
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> > one. Sounds odd, but the faster, newer system had a habit of crashing |
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> > during an emerge ... Both systems now gone to the Computer Centre in the |
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> > Sky :-) |
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> That is certainly odd. You would assume that the faster system would be |
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> the one compiling stuff for the slower one. I've been thinking of buying |
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> a couple of old desktops for the sole purpose of being distcc slaves but |
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> I don't know how much that would improve the compile times. |
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Counter-intuitive, to say the least, and certainly not the way I do it. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |