Mark Knecht wrote: > if binary packages were built and stored in some reasonable > location then I could probably prune out things that I'm not > worried about,
But then, one day, you'll see that you've pruned something you shouldn't have, something that one of the things you did keep needs as a dependency. Better keep everything. Disks are gigantic these days, surely you can spare a gigabyte or two for binary packages. > I wonder if -b could be put in one of the > /etc/portage/package.XXX files Better go with the FEATURES=buildpkg that Bo pointed out, that is the mechanism that emerge provides for this situation. Myself, I don't use buildpkg nor default option -b, I simply keep a second partition around with a Gentoo system in a working state. If ever the primary gets messed up, I can reboot into the second one and use that until I have the first repaired. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
