[ltp] Gentoo on thinkpad?

[Richard Neill]

Jim Redmond wrote:
> I'm running Gentoo on a T23, and have no problems now that the system is
> compiled.  The one possible drawback to installing Gentoo on there is
> that I had to find some other way to entertain myself while it built the
> system (about a day and a half for the basic stuff and another 12-18
> hours for KDE).

If you do that, presumably you have to have somewhere to keep about 20GB
of sources? And I assume you have to keep them permanently, so that when
rsyncing to do updates, you don't have to re-download all the time.
Is there a way around this?

Richard