<quote who="Joshua J. Berry"> > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: >> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:29, Joshua J. Berry wrote: >> > I'm going to be getting a new (Pentium 4) laptop relatively >> soon...and I was wondering if it's possible to pre-build >> P4-optimized packages on my Pentium 3 desktop. >> >> I doubt this is possible. However, you might want to look at distcc >> which will allow other machines to share the compilation load or bear >> it entirely. >> > > I know...but I can't really distcc with a laptop I haven't bought yet. > :) I just want a set of packages I can have to get it up more quickly.
Oh I see. Well, in that case a GRP release would be preferable. 1.4 rc2 provides precompiled packages which you can unpack during install and have a system up and running quickly. Compilation, as you say, can come later. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
