> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:27 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question > > > Not to mention you will spend much longer waiting for > everything to download then you'd have to wait for everything > do download on demand. It would probably be more desirable > for you to keep a network-shared distfiles than mirror the > servers. Then there's the age-old 'static hosts file' > problem - just like the giant host file describing everyone > took longer to transfer than to become outdated back in the > glorious days of UNIX, it will also probably take longer to > dowload all distfiles ever than it will for those distfiles > to become outdated. In conclusion, I think this is a rather > silly idea. > --
You are right I think. If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not to rsync your portage tree more than once a day. For the average distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient to keep up with the packages in the main branch. I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to make sure that I do it right. ^_^ Hopefully by the time I build the machine, either A) I can get a decent nVidia card, or B) the ATI drivers will be released. ^_^ I preffer nVidia, but if the ATI drivers go open source (crossing my fingers but not holding my breath), then that will be a good option as well. ^_^ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
