Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

[Chris Brennan]

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On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:56:27 +0800 William Kenworthy <William Kenworthy
<billk@×××××××××.au>> articulated:

> On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 05:34 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > Carlos Sura wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 24 February 2012 22:04, John <irgunii@×××××.com
> > > <mailto:irgunii@×××××.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     On Friday, February 24, 2012 21:12 Pandu Poluan wrote:
> > >     > On Feb 25, 2012 10:06 AM, "John" <irgunii@×××××.com
> > >     <mailto:irgunii@×××××.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >      <snip>
> > >
> > >     >
> > >     > Have a look at Sabayon. It's Gentoo-based, but it comes
> > >     > with binary repository (although you can easily use portage
> > >     > if you want).
> > >     >
> > >     > It offers 'out of the box' support for KDE4, xfce, or
> > >     > gnome3.
> > >     Others are
> > >     > available but you have to compile them yourself (via
> > >     > portage).
> > >     >
> > >     > Rgds,
> > >
> > >      Will do. Thank you!
> > >
> > >
> > >     --
> > >     There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good
> > >     American. The only man who
> > >     is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing
> > > else. -Theodore Roosevelt,
> > >     1915
> > >
> > >
> > > Gentoo is for everyone. And I love it!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Carlos Sura.-
> > > www.carlossura.com <http://www.carlossura.com/>
> > >
> >
> >
> > I used to be on dial-up as most old timers here may recall.  Here
> > are the bad things:  Libreoffice and a full KDE upgrade.  It would
> > take me DAYS to download everything.  Heck, it takes me a while and
> > I have DSL now.  Just be prepared.
> >
> > I don't know about your area but here, DSL was cheaper than dial-up
> > when I first got it.  Right now, they are the same price, last I
> > checked on the dial-up prices anyway.  You may want to check those
> > prices IF you can get DSL.
> >
> > Is Gentoo doable, yea.  Does it take patience, yep it does.
> > Dial-up is slow.
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
>
> gentoo over dialup is do-able - but be smart about it.  If you have
> access to a fast link, build a list of packages and download, burn to
> CD/usb key and take them back home.
>
> You only need to download a package once ... don't delete anything
> in /usr/portage/distfiles as over time you might want to make changes,
> or a library change creeps in so you will occasionally need to
> recompile a package.
>
> If you have more than one system, look into http-replicator or share
> over nfs
>
> Use "emerge -f package_list" to download into the distfiles directory
> files well ahead of when the "emerge package_list" will need them ...
> there is no need to waste time waiting for compilation to finish and
> letting the bandwidth go to waste.
>
> Other users on the link complainiung about the bandwidth your using? -
> look into bandwidth limiting arguments for whatever fetch process you
> are using.
>
> I am sure there are others Ive missed :)
>
> BillK

If the update is small, or even if it's not, parrallel fetching is your
best friend. Portage will fetch in the background what else is needed
while the first package is building. You can drop to a new terminal and
grep for that fetch process, when it's complete, kill the DUN link.

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Chris Brennan
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