[ltp] Gentoo on thinkpad?

[Soren Harward]

On Thu 29 Dec 2005 at 15:28:02, Richard Neill said:
> I'm considering making the leap from Mandriva to Gentoo on the A22p.
> There are lots of advantages, but I don't know if the machine has either
> the horsepower or disk space to compile from source.

You probably knew this already, but compiling from source is not
absolutely necessary when running Gentoo.

> Has anyone else done this successfully?

If you have a faster machine available, you can always use distcc to
compile most of your packages.  When you set distcc up on the laptop,
put the faster machine first in the list of distcc hosts, such as:

   /usr/bin/distcc-config --set-hosts "192.168.1.2 127.0.0.1"

where 192.168.1.2 is the other, more powerful machine.  This will cause
distcc to use the other machine preferentially for compiling.  emerges
will go noticeably faster.

-- 
Soren Harward <sth@freeshell.org>