[ltp] Gentoo on thinkpad?

[Peter B. West]

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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:13:35PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>>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?
> 
> 
> 20GB of sources is a bit over-estimated, I'd say.
> 
> I have a full system installed (I don't use KDE nor GNOME, though -
> but Enlightenment) - this is the full sources + more for that system:
> 
> $ du -ch /usr/portage/distfiles/|tail -n 1
> 1.5G    total
> 
> This is an X31, by the way...
> 
> Regards,
> Brix

And the rest.  I recall being surprised to find a tmp directory 
somewhere with a truckload of files in it.  I wasn't even compiling OO 
sources but using the binaries.  I abandoned Gentoo in the end because 
of 1) the disc space demands, 2) the time taken to compile major updates 
like KDE or Gnome (not to mention OO, Firebird, Thunderbird), and, to a 
slight extent, 3) the inability to set up a 1.5 based Java environment. 
  I am running a G41, 3.3GHz desktop replacement.  The memory is not as 
fast as I would like, and neither is the disk, but it is still quite a 
capable system; more so than most TPs.

My reason for installing initially was to get a system that I could keep 
up-to-date from an application and, primarily, a security viewpoint.

If you do install, I would recommend a conservative update policy. 
Don't be tempted to fiddle with keywords, because you will end up with a 
mess on your hands.

If you are serious about Java (by which I mean 1.5), don't install *any* 
Gentoo Java.  Maintain your own Java environment.  It's not that difficult.

With those provisos, I found Gentoo to be an effective and 
well-documented system.

Peter
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Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/>
Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>

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