[SlugLUG] Re: [Honors-members] about that installfest

[Peter Belew]

Hi

On 3/25/06, cerise at armory.com <cerise at armory.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:58:04PM -0800, Peter Belew wrote:
> >
> > Yes, that is true. Some people, of course, would like to just
> > install the binaries and not wait for the builds. But I don't know
> > the time ratio between the two approaches.
>
>    If the time ratio is that big (it certainly is on my pentium-120), one could
> simply use GRP, and emerge it normally while using the GRP'd version.

 That's the approach that would be appropriate for a single system
with none other to do builds on.

>    Or, as I do with tuesday, simply compile on another system and xfer binaries
> over.
>

 That makes sense if the build environment on the build system is
compatible with libraries on the target system. Something to make sure
of before proceeding.

> >  I'm weak. Till I want to install something that isn't avaiable in

 (Just hypothetically weak)

> > binary, or would better be rebuilt since it isn't in the right package
> > format, or would benefit for optomization, etc ...
>
>    By definition, they all benefit from optimization.  Additionally, with a
> little bit of effort, one can avoid a ton of dependencies which you get stuck
> with in a binary-only distro.
>
>    Out of curiousity, have you actually run Gentoo?  Or do you just

  No, only because all my systems already have stuff on them that I'm
concerned about disturbing.

assume
> that it's too leet for you because I'm using it?  ; )

 No, not at all. Actually, given time, I intend to try it. Life is
short. We should discuss this. I have some disk space devoted to an
unused W2K OS on this box ('dude') I intend to overwrite with Linux
without removing the existing Linux (Fedora) and very small W98 (Dell
diagnostics) partitions.

A concern is that I'm very dependent on software I've installed,
written, and/or configured on this system, and want to retain it
intact. Naturally this will be easy if I install into separate
partitions.

 :)

>
> -Phil/CERisE
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