compile farm distro

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 09:28, David Holland wrote:
> I've been trying to
> install Gentoo + KDE on my 550MHz notebook and 'emerge kde' has taken
> over 30 hours.  I finally had to abort the emerge and when I restarted
> it keeps failing.  I checked Gentoo forums and found emerge -e kde.
> This will emerge over 120 packages which will probably take several days
> on a 550.  

The company I work for has sponsored some changes to portage that will
allow you to download binary packages (precompiled ebuilds) from a ftp
or http server (just like the sources now).

Once some binary mirrors show up, your install would not take days.

-Bill