Re: [tlug] CentOS to Gentoo-Pros/Cons(if any)?

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 13/12/05, Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com> wrote:

> Well, that's a pretty big pro, but to me the biggest one is that your system will always be
> up-to-date. If you do emerge -uD world periodically, you will never have to reinstall your system
> (barring some catastrophe).

Caveat: please never do this on a production server. ;)

> I like Gentoo so much I run it on all my computers, including a 233MHz
> Pentium II laptop (reemerging world takes more than a day sometime), and
> an ancient PentiumPro machine that serves as my home firewall/router.

Look into distcc. Mauro and I are big believers! :)

You could also build a Faketoo[1] instance and compile binary packages
for your laptop on a big, beefy machine, and set the 'top up with
PORTAGE_BINHOST (as detailed in a previous post) to snag its packages
from the Faketoo instance automatically when you emerge them.

Cheers,
Josh

[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=166358