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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Dan Farrell [mailto:dan@×××××××××.cx] |
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:27 AM |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question |
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> Not to mention you will spend much longer waiting for |
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> everything to download then you'd have to wait for everything |
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> do download on demand. It would probably be more desirable |
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> for you to keep a network-shared distfiles than mirror the |
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> servers. Then there's the age-old 'static hosts file' |
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> problem - just like the giant host file describing everyone |
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> took longer to transfer than to become outdated back in the |
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> glorious days of UNIX, it will also probably take longer to |
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> dowload all distfiles ever than it will for those distfiles |
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> to become outdated. In conclusion, I think this is a rather |
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> silly idea. |
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> -- |
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You are right I think. |
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If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not |
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to rsync your portage tree more than once a day. For the average |
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distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient |
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to keep up with the packages in the main branch. |
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I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three |
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install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before |
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moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch |
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the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to make sure that |
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I do it right. ^_^ |
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Hopefully by the time I build the machine, either A) I can get |
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a decent nVidia card, or B) the ATI drivers will be released. ^_^ |
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I preffer nVidia, but if the ATI drivers go open source (crossing |
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my fingers but not holding my breath), then that will be a good |
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option as well. |
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^_^ |
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