Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:14:33
Message-Id: 20070324090556.7eccdc53@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Question re: profiles by Colleen Beamer
1 On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:16:47 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:
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3 > > There's no point, because they'll only be copied back the next time
4 > > you sync.
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6 > Thanks for the response. I guess I was just looking to keep my hard
7 > drive and free of superfluous files as possible.
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9 This tip will keep the whole portage tree in a single file
10 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage#MultiPurpose_Trick
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12 I've been using it on several boxes, one of them being a local rsync
13 mirror, for a while now, with good speed and no problems.
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17 Neil Bothwick
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19 No maintenance: Impossible to fix.

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