12 Jul
2006
12 Jul
'06
4:56 p.m.
NOTE: It is NOT that the Gentoo install is all that
difficult. It just
takes a lot of time to build everything.
on a recent cpu you can build xorg in about 25 minutes, including its ancillary libaries.
add another 25 for firefox. and a couple for fluxbox. hardly 2 days..
first time through. In fact, if you have a junk
machine sitting around
I would STRONGLY recommend building Gentoo on it, getting it running,
and then sending it back to the junk pile
but before that, equery list | xargs quickpkg. so you can use it as a PORTAGE_BINHOST so
your next install will take 5 minutes instead of 50 ;)
After Gentoo is built the big advantage is you never
have to
'upgrade'.
actually, you do. it mainly involves replacing a symlink to /etc/make.profile every 3
months, and hoping this doesnt break things badly :) if you are going from eg 2004.3 to
2005.1 (skipping 2005.0), i can guarantee you will probably have issues with your
toolchain, eselect, or something..hopefully you dont get glibc/gcc errors that create a
catch22 situation wrt building further updates..its happened to me, especially when
updating to a multilib setup.
the main reason i'd recommend gentoo is the proaudio overlay. im fairly sure nobody is
even close to that amount of binary coverage on the binary distros..