Hello, On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 09:53:54PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Michal 'vorner' Vaner, > > > Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots > > of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not > > compiling and compile on other machine using distcc. > > portage can use any directory you like for its workspace, you don't have > to remote mount /var to achieve this. You could mount /var/tmp over NFS, > but setting PORTAGE_TMPDIR is less kludgy.
Well, seems on the same level for me, but that is only personal
preference. But the point with this one is - PORTAGE_TMPDIR (besides,
isn't it PORTAGE_WORKDIR?) is gentoo specific, but you can do the
mounting just anywhere.
Anyway, the point is probably clear…
With regards
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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